I share an Eclipse project between three different machines using Dropbox. Now the problem is that the paths in the .classpath file are not the same on all machines. I tried to replace /Users/username with ~ but that does not work. However, that file is synchronized by Dropbox on the different machines which leads to problems.
Is there a way to configure the name and/or path of that .classpath file on a per-project base?
PS: This is NOT about version control. I know and use it for this project, but I need a solution to work without version control.
The directory structure is as follows
- .metadata (excluded from syncing)
- src (version controlled)
- .classpath
- my other files
The .classpath file is generated by the sbt eclipse command. Currently, it looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<classpath>
<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/scala-2.10/classes" path="src/main/scala"/>
<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/scala-2.10/classes" path="src/main/java"/>
<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/scala-2.10/test-classes" path="src/test/scala"/>
<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/scala-2.10/test-classes" path="src/test/java"/>
<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.scala-ide.sdt.launching.SCALA_CONTAINER"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.typesafe.akka/akka-actor_2.10/bundles/akka-actor_2.10-2.1.0.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.typesafe.akka/akka-actor_2.10/srcs/akka-actor_2.10-2.1.0-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.typesafe/config/bundles/config-1.0.0.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.typesafe/config/srcs/config-1.0.0-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.typesafe.akka/akka-remote_2.10/bundles/akka-remote_2.10-2.1.0.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.typesafe.akka/akka-remote_2.10/srcs/akka-remote_2.10-2.1.0-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/io.netty/netty/bundles/netty-3.5.8.Final.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/io.netty/netty/srcs/netty-3.5.8.Final-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java/jars/protobuf-java-2.4.1.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java/srcs/protobuf-java-2.4.1-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.uncommons.maths/uncommons-maths/jars/uncommons-maths-1.2.2a.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.uncommons.maths/uncommons-maths/srcs/uncommons-maths-1.2.2a-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.esotericsoftware.kryo/kryo/jars/kryo-2.20.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.esotericsoftware.kryo/kryo/srcs/kryo-2.20-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.esotericsoftware.reflectasm/reflectasm/jars/reflectasm-1.07-shaded.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.esotericsoftware.reflectasm/reflectasm/srcs/reflectasm-1.07-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.ow2.asm/asm/jars/asm-4.0.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.ow2.asm/asm/srcs/asm-4.0-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.esotericsoftware.minlog/minlog/jars/minlog-1.2.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/com.esotericsoftware.minlog/minlog/srcs/minlog-1.2-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.objenesis/objenesis/jars/objenesis-1.2.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.objenesis/objenesis/srcs/objenesis-1.2-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/ch.ethz.ganymed/ganymed-ssh2/jars/ganymed-ssh2-build210.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/ch.ethz.ganymed/ganymed-ssh2/srcs/ganymed-ssh2-build210-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/commons-codec/commons-codec/jars/commons-codec-1.7.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/commons-codec/commons-codec/srcs/commons-codec-1.7-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/junit/junit/jars/junit-4.8.2.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/junit/junit/srcs/junit-4.8.2-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.specs2/specs2_2.10/jars/specs2_2.10-1.13.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.specs2/specs2_2.10/srcs/specs2_2.10-1.13-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.specs2/scalaz-core_2.10/jars/scalaz-core_2.10-7.0.0.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.specs2/scalaz-core_2.10/srcs/scalaz-core_2.10-7.0.0-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.specs2/scalaz-concurrent_2.10/jars/scalaz-concurrent_2.10-7.0.0.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.specs2/scalaz-concurrent_2.10/srcs/scalaz-concurrent_2.10-7.0.0-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.specs2/scalaz-effect_2.10/jars/scalaz-effect_2.10-7.0.0.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.specs2/scalaz-effect_2.10/srcs/scalaz-effect_2.10-7.0.0-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.specs2/classycle/jars/classycle-1.4.1.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.specs2/classycle/srcs/classycle-1.4.1-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.mockito/mockito-all/jars/mockito-all-1.9.0.jar" sourcepath="/Users/USERNAME/.ivy2/cache/org.mockito/mockito-all/srcs/mockito-all-1.9.0-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/Users/USERNAME/Downloads/Java-WebSocket-master/dist/java_websocket.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="output" path="bin"/>
</classpath>
The first solution that really seems to work so far is a little ugly but very easy. I just created a symbolic link in the
/Users/directory to make Eclipse find the needed files.That way I can easily share code between my different machines.
And a note on version control: Yes, we use version control. Actually, we work on a Github fork of a University project with a lot of pull requests, branches and several developers. So the Dropbox solution is not a substitution for an SCM. However, it helps me to be very flexible in changing between different computers quickly and I do not have to handle branches, commits and so on just to keep the files up-to-date. But of course, all changes are committed to Github when they are ready.