Re: [vassalengine-devel] New to Java + Eclipse, SVN & CVS

[Joel U. <uck...@no...>]

Thus spake Don Lazov:
> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> I am finally now making the transition (work wise) to java. At work we use ja
> va and eclipse.

I should warn you that we're planning to move in the other direction,
away from Java, for VASSAL 4.

> To learn more about java and CVS & SVN I downloaded a SVN cli
> ent (tortoise). when I try to bring down VASSAL engine I am getting this erro
> r: 
> 
> svn: Can't open file 'vassalengine\VASSAL-src\branches\uckelman-dice\doc\Refe
> renceManual\images\.svn\tmp\text-base\shapeitem.png.svn-base': The system can
> not find the file specified. 

I can't tell you why you're getting that particular error, but it
appears that you are checking out the whole repository (I suppose you
must be doing that, as there'd be no particular reason for you to check
out an outdated branch like that one).

Try checking out a particular branch (something inside VASSAL-src/branches)
instead.
 
> I have svn down some smaller projects (and two medium sized ones) and at the 
> end (via cmd prompt) it tells me which version was checked out. 

We're also planning to move from svn to git for V4...
 
> I'd like to 1) learn how vassal (and vasl in particular) works via java 2) le
> arn how to better use eclipse and svn+cvs 3) eventually help out some maybe o
> n this project. 
> 
> Is there any kind of documentation or could someone mentor me on how after yo
> u bring down the latest cut to make sure it complies in eclipse? 

http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Eclipse_setup
 
-- 
J.