[photran] Updating to PTP 7 when using old synchronized projects

[Gianluca Bertaina <gianluca.bertaina@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
just to let you know I managed somehow to import a synchronized PTP 6 project into PTP 7.
In PTP 6 synchronized projects multiplied the build configurations by the number of remote hosts on which I compiled my code. Since even without using synchronized projects I already have dozens of build configurations I decided to try to use my PTP 6 workspace with the new Eclipse Kepler and PTP 7.

I succeded in converting the project removing the <nature>org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.core.remoteSyncNature</nature> in the .project file and then reconverting the project to a Synchronized project (see below for the procedure from PTP 5 to PTP 6). I also removed all the old build configurations which referred to remote hosts and I also had to remove the workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.core.prefs file, before converting the project.

I do not advise to follow this procedure unless I have a large number of build configurations, because I guess the .cproject file will contain a lot of old unused stuff.

All the best,
Gianluca Bertaina

Il 25/09/2012 20:53, John Eblen ha scritto:

Hi

Thank you - this is very useful information. In PTP 6, the data storage for synchronized projects has been moved to allow synchronized projects to be

relocated. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=371507 for details. This is why PTP 5 projects no longer work after an upgrade to PTP 6.

 

John

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Gianluca Bertaina <gianluca.bertaina@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

in case somebody is interested, the only way that I found to update to PTP 6 and still use my projects with all the configuration settings (except for the sync settings, which I was forced to reset) was:
1) Install the new version of Eclipse/PTP (*), create a new empty workspace
2) Before importing my project from the old workspace, modify the .project file by removing the line:
<nature>org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.core.remoteSyncNature</nature>
3) Import the old project
4) Convert the imported project to a Synchronized project, de-selecting all the configurations
5) In the properties of the project, manually set all the details for each configuration in the C/C++ Build/Synchronize menu

The good point of this procedure is that I didn't have to reset the .cproject file, since I have around one hundred configurations, but I still had to reset the Synchronization settings.

(*) By the way, the Juno version of Eclipse (4.2) is unusable for me (see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=385272), so I installed Eclipse 3.8 and then PTP 6.0.1 from the Juno repository. By the moment it works.

Regards,
Gianluca Bertaina
 

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