[cmake-developers] Better Eclipse CDT support

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 30 April 2011, Oliver Buchtala wrote:
> Am 30.04.2011 19:56, schrieb Oliver Buchtala:
> > Am 30.04.2011 19:29, schrieb Alexander Neundorf:
> >>> Nowadays, there are ways to deal better with that: linked folders,
> >>> virtual folders and linked resources
> >> 
> >> I'm not using Eclipse actively myself, I'm just maintaining the
> >> generator. But what people told me is that if the sources are not in a
> >> subdir of the project file, then the svn support of Eclipse does not
> >> work.
> >> Also if the sources are in a linked folder.
> >> Did this change ?
> > 
> > Ok. Don't know. I have to  check...
> > Actually, there happened a lot around folders. Maybe this also works in
> > the meantime.
> 
> Nope. This is still not supported.
> My personal opinion is that I do not care about eclipse svn support.
> Other IDEs don't support this either (or not well).
> 
> Also, in earlier days I have had not too good experiences with
> Subversive and Subclipse
> and always returned to doing svn from command line or other tools (e.g.
> TortoiseSVN).
> I looked a bit around in the internet and still find mainly bad remarks
> for those both plugins
> and suggestions not to do it from within Eclipse.

When I look around my colleagues I find basically only positive remarks about 
the svn support in Eclipse ;-)

This is also my impression from feedback from other users about the Eclipse 
generators, that the missing svn support in linked folders sucks.

Alex