[Mork]

I’m wondering what is the best way to move a MyEclipse project between a PC and a Mac.

In the past, when I’ve tried to copy an existing MyEclipse project from the PC (by copying directories directly), I end up with a, basically, corrupted install on the Mac side. There are tons of “C:” paths and such which make no sense to Unix and just mess things up.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

– M

[support-joy]

M,

You can try using tools such as VSS / CVS and give it a shot.

[Mork]

Thanks Joy.

[Brian Fernandes]

Jim,

While you can checkout your project from CVS, if your project on Windows pointed to windows specific resources, then there isn’t much that can be done by any automated solution.

For example, if you pointed to a library at c:\mylibs\common-stuff.jar, then that reference will remain in the project and will not work on the Mac.

Notes that might help:
1) MyEclipse libraries – (such as our Hibernate / JPA / Spring containers) are OS independent and will be found and correctly resolved on any OS as their locations are determined relative to your MyEclipse installation.

2) If you use third party libraries, you could put them in a “User Library” instead and have your project reference the user library. Then when you move between OSes, you will just need to re-define your user library to point to locations that are correct for your new system, your project itself will remain platform and system independent.

Hope this helps.

[Mork]

Thanks Brian.

I think trying to move projects between mac and pc has caused lots of problems for me in the past with hard coded workspace paths, etc..

Thanks for your reply.

– M

[hobb26odon]

Thanks…Would also try for this.

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