Re: AW: [Junit-devel] metadata for the NetBeans IDE

[Marian P. <Mar...@Su...>]

Matthias,
I understand that JUnit developers only need their Eclipse data for 
active development. But I still see several reasons for integrating 
other IDE data:
    - an effort to make browsing the sources easier (so that any 
programmer who wants to see the JUnit sources may easily open in in 
his/her preferred IDE without creating a project for them). I believe 
there are far more people who just browse the sources than the number of 
active JUnit developers. I think that the time of browsing complex 
source code in a console is over
    - the IDE data will be maintained - I volunteer to keep the NetBeans 
data up to date. I see all CVS changes so that I can update the data 
when necessary
    - since all the active JUnit developers use Eclipse, they are immune 
to broken data for other IDEs

If you think that having project metadata for multiple IDEs is 
troublesome, what do you think about J. David Beutel's suggestion of 
grouping them all in one directory?

Marian


Mat...@un... wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think the JUnit developers (those who have write access to the CVS) have agreed on using Eclipse as their IDE. So IMHO it is okay to just have the Eclipse data in the repository. Other IDE data could break when changing a setting in one IDE but not in the other.
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias Schmidt