I'm using Eclipse (PDT) as primary IDE on different machines. (like at home, laptop, in office, etc.). How could I share the Eclipse and project configuration pragmatically between multiple computers? Should I version control them, or is there any easier way to do this?
How do you ensure to use the same good and old even so up to date config all of your computers?
Sharing eclipse specific settings across workspaces:
${old_workspace}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings${new_workspace}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settingsThis is going to make sure that the ${new_workspace} is having the same configuration as the ${old_workspace}
Hope this helps. Update in case of any issues.
You can actually set many project specific settings that can be checked into source control. For small projects, this works really well. For larger projects, we decided to have a single file that we used for all of our projects and checked into a separate "assets" project that maintained things that developers needed to get started working on our project. This also included things like licenses and other required files.
There are two questions here. First, there are project definitions, the .project files and project specific settings. Personally, I like those in my source control, as it makes checking out a project and setting up an IDE much easier.
Second, you have the workspace settings. You will see a lot of questions in this area. I suggest taking a look at Pulse: it is an enhanced Eclipse distribution that can, among other things, save your workspace settings and sync them with multiple machines or team members.
Simply copy the directories
${old_workspace}/.metadata/.plugins
from an existing project to the new one.
That worked well within (rather simple) PHP projects.
You can use Eclipstyle to clone preferences of one workspace to your other workspaces. You can also export your preferences and clone them later.