ProjectViewer's "archive project" action only supports compressing projects into a
jar file, including options to add a manifest and ignore .java files. This is very
java-centric and not terribly useful.
I think PV should scrap the name "archive project" and provide several different methods
to "export" a project, possibly as a service provider for other plugins, but not necessarily.
A standard "compress to zip" option would be more universal than archiving as a jar,
and then two jar options could be supported: a standard one, and an executable one.
As one possible scenario, PV could come with just a "compress to zip" export option
and provide exporting as a service. Then a number of different java-specific export
options could be defined by JavaSideKick or a new plugin (e.g. JavaProject), such
as jar, executable jar, javadoc, etc.
As a counterpart to exporting, being able to import an archived project would also
be handy. As an example, right-clicking on a group would provide an "import project
here" action that would prompt for the archived project and a target directory. PV
would then unzip the project to that location and import all the files into a new
project.
| Submitted | kog13 - 2010-10-28 00:25:22 | Assigned | |
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| Priority | 5 | Labels | Project Viewer |
| Status | open | Group | None |
| Resolution | None |
| 2010-10-29 02:52:00 vanza |
This is the kind of functionality that can be completely developed outside of PV,
and plugged into the PV UI through its extension mechanism. In fact, that's the preferred
way of doing this kind of stuff.
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| 2012-01-12 23:19:41 ezust |
- **labels**: --> Project Viewer |