[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-1406) Package archive configuration is coupled to project name

[Rob Stryker (JIRA)]

    [ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-1406?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12424128#action_12424128 ] 

Rob Stryker commented on JBIDE-1406:
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During the course of this jira, paths for filesets and archives were refactored for in-workspace paths.  Specifically, in-workspace paths that were absolute (had a leading slash) are unchanged entirely, but paths that do not have a leading slash now work differently.

In previous versions, all paths that were marked as "in workspace" or "workspace relative" ignored the leading slash and worked the same regardless. For example, "projectA/output" was treated the same as "/projectA/output". 

In version 2.0 of the descriptor, however, this is no longer true. Paths that do not have a leading slash will be treated as relative to the project it's declared in, or in the future, where the specific descriptor file is located. As of now since all descriptor files are at the root of the project, this is not an issue, but further changes will be required to allow for multiple descriptors per file. 

Since old archives do not have a version attached to their descriptor, old archives should continue to work without any changes. New archives that are created in a new descriptor file should be using version 1.2 of the descriptor file. A potential migration issue here is if one member of a team upgrades to jboss tools 3.0, creates a new project archives, and it defaults to descriptor version 2.0.  Members of the team still on an older jboss tools version will interpret this file incorrectly.

> Package archive configuration is coupled to project name
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>
>                 Key: JBIDE-1406
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-1406
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Archives
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0.GA
>         Environment: Eclipse 3.3.1.1 on openSUSE 10.3
>            Reporter: Rob Hasselbaum
>            Assignee: Rob Stryker
>             Fix For: 3.0.0.alpha
>
>
> The ".packages" configuration file contains references to the project name. This is problematic if the configuration is checked into a revision control system, since it requires all checkouts of the project to use the same name in Eclipse. This means a developer cannot have more than one copy of the project in Eclipse at the same time (e.g. different branches), and in addition, all members of a team are forced to use the same project name.
> I have entered this as a bug rather than an enhancement request because this is a regression from JBoss IDE 1.6.

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