Maureen: Using SVN for versioning code in Domino Designer

Maureen,

in your blog we talked about using SVN in Domino Designer for Eclipse.

As you said, it’s possible to install the Subclipse Plugin, and I even can rightclick on a database in the domino designer outline and add it to a SVN repository.

But in fact there only some status files added to SVN, no code at all.

Can you say

a) when and if there will be Eclipse editors for LotusScript and Java code?

b) if there are Eclipse editors, will we be able to push LotusScript / Java code (and maybe other stuff) to SVN?

From my point of view that’s a very important topic, every Eclipse developer will expect that version management with CVS or SVN works.

Thanks,

Julian Buss

Subject: sounds like it’s not traversing the virtual directories

can you try a right click on an individual design element (say a form or an image or a scriptlib) and operate on that individually? I’m suspicious that it may be getting stuck going in to our virtual directories.

thanks!

Subject: I tried that

yes, I tried that - the very same result. It makes no difference if I rightclick on a script lib or on the “root” node. In any case Subclipse only sees the physical files resinding in the data/workspace/<databasename.nsf> directory.

I’m glad to assist you!

Subject: we’ll investigate!

we have found that some plugins aren’t quite as virtual file system savvy as others - we’ll debug a bit and see if it is us, them, or the combination.

thank you!

Subject: How will design elements be exposed?

I’m looking to work with Team Foundation Server via an Eclipse plugin. The plugin installs into DDE just fine and I can access the TFS server, but as previous posters have noted, am unable to move design elements to TFS. My question is, how exactly do you expose the individual design elements, as binaries or DXL or some other format. The reason for asking is that the normal functions of any source control system (merge, compare etc) really requires a textual format of the code to work, binaries won’t work well here except for archiving / retrieval. As we know DXL still has some issues with round-tripping, especially with special characters. Thanks!

Subject: To Maureen Leland

Maureen,

     I see a lot of posts talking about SVN on Domino. This is possible ? I try to install by Application Install, and Everithig works fine. But i can't see the SVN perspective. I install successfully the project Sniffer Code from Open NTF.



     How can i see the Eclipse Plugins in the Domino Designer 8.5.1 ?