[Jason Hobbs]

Just add the xerces plugin folders from your 2.x eclipse installation to the 3.x plugin folder, and the Merant 2.1 plugin for Eclipse will work in 3.0 without a hitch! (Although it will still be a pain in the ass to install in the first place 🙂 )

Good luck!

[Scott Anderson]

Jason,

Nice tip! Thanks for letting everyone know.

[Skip Hollowell]

What version of PVCS are you utilizing, and who’s PVCS plugin. I have seen a couple, and had luck with none of them. As I am just a contractor, I cannot convince the company to change software, so if I could find a decent plugin and get it to work for eclipse, my life would be much easier. We are currently on PVCS 7.5 here.

[Jason Hobbs]

I’m using 7.5 here with a tweaked version of Merant’s plugin.

Now, when I say ‘tweaked’, I mean, “made to work” since it doesn’t out of the box. In fact, it’s just plain wrong out of the box.

Two patches are required for the PVCS plugin to work with eclipse.

This should set you on the right path:

Install PVCS 7.5, adding the eclipse integration. When it asks for an eclipse location, don’t bother since it won’t recognize 3.x as a working installation. Just continue.

Patch PVCS to 7.5.1.5 – Download available from Merant’s site

Patch PVCS to 7.5.2.7 – This includes Eclipse 2.1 functionality.

Now go into:
{PVCS Install Folder}\VM\devint\eclipse2.1

the layout of this folder is incorrect OOTB. It SHOULD be:

  eclipse2.1
      eclipse
           features
               com.merant.team.pvcs_2.0.9
           plugins
               com.merant.team.pvcs.docs_2.0.9
               com.merant.team.pvcs_2.0.9

…essentially the folders which should be underneath ‘plugins’ are not, they need to be moved under there.

Then in you eclipse install folder, in the links folder

create a file called com.merant.team.pvcs.link
containing:

path=C:\\Program Files\\PVCS\\vm\\devint\\eclipse2.1

(obviously correct any path here you might have used differently)

Copy the org.apache.xerces_4.0.13 plugin folder from eclipse 2.1 to your eclipse 3 plugins folder

and then you should be good to go.

Sorry I have to run to a meeting, feel free to shoot me an IM or email if you need more. I’ll update this thread with any corrections.

Hopefully this helped some folks out.

Jase

[Skip Hollowell]

Jason.

So far so good. Finally got the build manager here to get me the updated version of VM, and I followed your steps below. But when I try to access VM or any of the Team features from inside Eclipse, I get an error SCC_E_INITIALIZEFAILED No real help there, but I thought it mean something to you.

Skip.

[Jason Hobbs]

@skip_hollowell wrote:

Jason.

So far so good. Finally got the build manager here to get me the updated version of VM, and I followed your steps below. But when I try to access VM or any of the Team features from inside Eclipse, I get an error SCC_E_INITIALIZEFAILED No real help there, but I thought it mean something to you.

Skip.

After simply starting eclipse, Do you have a “Merant” option in the main toolbar?

This is usually the best indicator that the plugin is started correctly right off the bat.

If that’s not there, the best starting point to figure out what’s wrong would be to go to HELP | SOFTWARE UPDATES | MANAGE CONFIGURATION in the eclipse menu and examining the Merant Plugin. Sometimes this is a good place to find the source of the error. If you don’t get any joy there (sometimes it’s as nice a message as “file not found in C:\blah” but sometimes not) then take a look in the log file in your workspace. You’ll find that in

{workspace folder}\.metadata\.log

….Let me know how it goes.

[Skip Hollowell]

Jason,

Thanks for the reply. Yep, I get the Merant menu item, and using that is when I received the SCC_E_INITIALIZEFAILED message. But this morning I had to hard reboot the machine for another reason, and when I went into eclipse this morning, the error was gone, and I was able to access Team Provider. I can’t read any of the project names, as they are all .prj file names, and not the poject names I set up in the VM Web Client Applet, but at least it is a start. I have the project directories shared on my solaris Box and map a drive to them on my NT box where I run eclipse.

If you know of any other pointers, they would be greatly appreciated, but I thank you immenselt for getting me on the right track.

Skip Hollowell

[Skip Hollowell]

And thanks a million for helping me find that log file. I kept looking in the project workspace, and not the default workspace of eclipse. Makes all the difference.

[Jason Hobbs]

Frequently I’ve found that non-eclipse instances of PVCS get hung up and prevent the plugin from working, that may have been your issue. If this happens again try closing down eclipse, opening your task manager and looking for a process called “PCLIOutProc.exe”. If it’s there, kill it and try re-opening Eclipse again.

I can help you get PVCS working in Eclipse, however I can’t help PVCS from sucking so bad. 🙂

It’s a rough road so stick with it 🙂

[lcbj]

where can i donwload the latest pvcs plug-in?
i have the vm 8.0 and eclipse 2.1 and/or 3.0
i´ve download this one http://downloads.merant.com/files/pvcs/VM68SP1.zip
but it didnt recognize my vm 8 instalation

[Jason Hobbs]

The PVCS plugin comes with VM. When installing VM do a custom install and install the developer toolkit with IDE integration, or whatever they’re calling it these days. I noticed on the Merant website though it says it only works with Eclipse 2.0 or 2.1 so you’ll probably have to jump through the same hoops that are document above.

Good luck!!

[James Qi]

Hi, do you know if now PVCS supports the Eclipse 3.0 or not? Also, do you know if there is a plug in for PVCS Tracker?

THank you
James

[Jason Hobbs]

7.5 and up seem to work OK with Eclipse 3 after performing the above steps. I don’t know much about Tracker, but the PVCS plugin does have some additional functionality other than just version control. I believe it has some sort of ‘watcher’ (if that’s what tracker is) where it’ll watch a repository for changes etc…

[allanws]

@jasonhobbs wrote:

7.5 and up seem to work OK with Eclipse 3 after performing the above steps. I don’t know much about Tracker, but the PVCS plugin does have some additional functionality other than just version control. I believe it has some sort of ‘watcher’ (if that’s what tracker is) where it’ll watch a repository for changes etc…

Does anybody know how I set “default upload rules” ? When I try to add some item to Dimensions the following message comes up to Merant console:

Could not locate default upload rules.
Run IDE Setup and load the default rules.
Error: Invalid Rule Base

Tks in advance

Allan

[luisgois]

Hello. Do you know if the VM plugin is the same used by Serena Dimensions 8 (8.0.41) ?

Thanks.
Best regards,
Luis

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