[harryajh]

not sure if this is a ME problem or not? but anyway –

trying to use the Visual Sourcesafe plugin for Eclipse 3.1 & ME 4 GA – download & unzipped org.vssplugin_1.6.1.zip from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54205 into eclipse plugin directory but appears to completely ignore it!

any ideas? – have I got to turn something on somewhere that’s not in the docs? – totally lost!

many thanks in advance

harry

[Riyad Kalla]

Moving to OT > General

Double check that you are unzipping this into the <Eclipse dir>\plugins directory and not the MyEclipse dir, also how do you know it’s being ignored?

[harryajh]

def expanded in to correct directory & from help | about | plug-ins – it is not in the list!

[harryajh]

so, is this a yes or no? does it work or not? – anybody!

[francisw]

@harryajh wrote:

so, is this a yes or no? does it work or not? – anybody!

Likewise after unzipping into the plugins folder under …\Eclipse\eclipse\plugins and restarting ME, I do not see the plug in listed under Help, About, Plug-In Details nor is there any selections for VSS under the “Team” context menus.

Other folks on the later ME version and earlier VSS version are working fine. CVS and VSS are both options.

I may try to re-install ME, though I’ve been running with ME, JBoss, Tomcat, CVS fine for many months now.

[Scott Anderson]

I’d try restarting your environment with -clean first as detailed in this FAQ entry:
http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-10280-highlight-clean.html

[Donald Scott]

I did the eclipse.exe -clean and got the same results with ME v6.0. I installed the full-stack version and dropped the Eclipse 3.3 VSS Plugin. I can email you the documentation for how I did this. Post back with contact info and I will email you the word doc.

Here is a starting point for you to pull down the VSS Eclipse Europa plugin: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54205

[francisw]

Nice, simple suggestion. But it had no effect, i.e. it didn’t work. As the article suggests one easy way is to add -clean in in the eclipse.ini file:
e.g.
-clean
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m

I may try the suggestions in that article for making a new workspace or clean re-install of ME.

[Donald Scott]

I did a click by click document with pictures on how to acquire the proper VSS Plugin, install it in Eclipse and verify that it works through VSS. Contact me for this document so you can see exactly how to reproduce the problem. I did this doc for my developmoent team. My AIM id is: DScottFL. You can reply back to this site or email me.

I did this documentation for ME v5.1 and the VSS plugin worked there. But it does not work for ME v6.0.

Excerpt of document…

Install VSS Eclipse Plugin
Estimated Time to Complete: ~30 minutes

In order to connect your project to VSS, you have to have already created your project in Eclipse. If you have not previously setup a valid Project in eclipse, then refer to the Install VSS Projects section of this document and then return to this section to complete the VSS Plugin process.

1. Do a “Get Latest” from the fat VSS Client on your local machine.
a. \\…\dev\Util\Development IDEs\EclipsePlugIns\vss-eclipse-plugin
2. Read the DEV Wiki Reference Document
3. Download the VSS Plugin from the source forge.
a. You need to get the Europa version of the VSS Plugin

4. Follow the VSS Plugin Installation directions.
5. Extract this zip file to your ECLIPSE_HOME\plugins directory.

6. Extract the zip file or copy the extracted folder to the ECLIPSE_HOME directory.

7. Restart Eclipse.
8. Verify that the plugin was picked up by Eclipse:
a. From the menu, select Help-> About MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench

b. Click the Plug-In Details button.

c. Scroll down the list of plug-ins and locate the new VSS Plugin.

9. Verify that you can see the VSS Menu item.

10. This example of activating the plugin uses the xxxl Project in Eclipse as the reference.
11. Share the project in Eclipse: In the MyEclipseJ2EE view, from the Package explorer, Right Click the project, Team ->Share Project…

12. Select VSS Configuration Wizard and click the Next button.

13. x
a. VSS Directory is whatever directory that you originally referenced the srcsafe.ini file from so you could connect to VSS via the VSS client on your workstation. If you took the default install for VSS, it is most likely in the path specified below.

b. Leave the Source dir as / for the default.
i. This is OK if the relative mount point is set as Projects in VSS.

c. Relative mountpoint: $/Development_V/Projects
i. Select Development_V.

ii. Select Projects and expand the directory.

iii. Select Travel and click the OK button.

d. Click the Finish button.

14. Note the changes to the L&F of the project in Eclipse.

15. Right click on Travel project and select Team. Note all of the VSS options now available to this project.

16. Get the latest code from VSS:

17. Note that the default configuration that is pulled from VSS is the production deploy configuration. You will need to configure your builders to reference your own ANT properties file(s) based on the type of debugging or coding that you want to do.
18. Do a Get Latest. You will see references on your local copies to all of the files in the project that are currently checked out by the other members of the development team. This could take a minute or two…

19. At this point if you refresh your code and any other file that is checked into VSS either from the VSS fat client or the VSS Plugin, you should get the files to land in the same directory on your local file system.
20. To see that the files are version controlled, select the build.xml file. Put focus on an empty line in the file and hit the space bar. It will prompt you to check the file out if all is configured properly.

21. x

[Riyad Kalla]

Don,
I might be missing something but the SF VSS plugin is for Eclipse 3.1, not Europa (Eclipse 3.3). To boot it was written against the 3.1 RC and not even the final release, my guess is that it’s just not compatible anymore with Eclipse 3.3 (foundation for MyEclipse 6.0)

[Donald Scott]

Riyad,
If you go to the sourcforge download for the link that I supplied, there is a download for a Eclipse 3.3/Europa VSS Plugin. That would be version 1.6.1 of the Nylander VSS plugin. What I can do in my off time is download a raw version of the Eclipse 3.3 minus the ME plugin and then add the VSS Plugin v1.6.1 into it and see if that works. I will do that tonight and let you know tomorrow if it works if someone on the blog does not beat me to an answer.

If you care to follow up in a real time conversational mode, feel free to AIM me: dscottfl.
your thoughts,
don.

[Riyad Kalla]

Thanks for the heads up.

Ok so I downloaded the file: org.vssplugin_1.6.1_Europa_Comp.zip

I uncompressed it to my <myeclipse install dir>\eclipse\plugins directory

Then I restarted MyEclipse… and it seems to have loaded fine, see below:

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[Michael Graham]

So how about the “Unable to find any valid VSS installtion” problem? Seems a lot of people are having that error all over and I have not been able to find a solution. Can you guys suggest something?

Thanks,
Michael

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