On Jul 18, 2011, at 10:20 PM, Peter Niederwieser wrote:
>
> Hani Suleiman wrote:
>>
>> Some questions about this as I'd dearly love to use it but have a few
>> concerns...
>>
>> - Why is it generated the old .ipr format, rather than files using the
>> .idea directory format?'
>>
>
> This is the first time I hear that .ipr is the "old" format. Isn't it still
> the default in IDEA? How is the "new" format better except that it allows to
> check in some parts but not others in to source control?
>
That's a pretty big win. It also is a lot more sensible in terms of what it
contains. Things like run configurations, inspection profiles, and so on. It
also means that you can have more fine grained control over what you generate
and overwrite. It also means that we can check in files that gradle does not
generate (run configurations, for example) and not lose them every time we add
a dependency.
If you think about it, it makes absolutely no sense to have to redo all your
run configs, project style customization, compiler settings, inspection
settings, and others just because you now need a new version of groovy or
whatever. It's problematic enough to make the current idea module unusable as
more than a one-off to generate stuff from scratch.
>
> Hani Suleiman wrote:
>>
>> - The workspace file is supposed to be a user's private workspace settings
>> (open editors, etc), what's the point of ever generating this?
>>
>
> I'm not sure if you can open a project without an .iws, but maybe we can do
> better here. Any suggestions? In the Gradle build itself we use this for
> sharing run configurations across the team (integration tests, run Gradle,
> etc.).
If you switched to the directory format, you get all that without having to
pollute 'personal' settings like which files you have open.
You can definitely open a project without an .iws, .iws is the 'workspace' file
which contains some pretty important things that you rarely want shared, but
also never want clobbered by a tool:
- Breakpoints you've set
- Open editors
- Local changesets (redundant with git, but still)
- Last opened files
- Pinned/docked window settings
- Local run configs (run/debug configs you want locally without sharing with
everyone else)
I'm surprised the gradle team doesn't get hugely annoyed every time this file
is generated and you lose all the above!
Given that you guys seem to be using IDEA, how do you cope with all the above?
Don't these pain points affect you?
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