Hi, Christian,

Workspaces are generally quite portable.  I, myself, like to apply the same settings in all of my workspaces, for 
different roles and different branches.  The way that I do it is to create an empty workspace as a template and 
configure all of my preferences, including workbench layout, compiler settings, source repositories, task/bug 
repositories, etc.  I don't create any projects in the workspace.

Then, I archive the .metadata folder in a ZIP file or some such.  Any time I want to create a new workspace, I just 
create a folder and unarchive the .metadata into it.  Then, it's ready to go.

Note, also, that you can check out as many branches of the same project as you need in a single workspace, if you like. 
 Just check them out into different-named projects (e.g., IPC_trunk, IPC_m5, etc.) and set the NAME variable in the 
common.mk of each to the same logical project name ("IPC" in your case).  You can do that in the "QNX C/C++ Projects" 
property page, in the "General" tab.  Two things to note with this approach, though:  (a) it is slightly awkward if the 
.project file is maintained in source control, as the method relies on changing the name of the project on check-out; 
(b) any dependencies on the project from other projects would have to use the local workspace names (branch-encoded) of 
the projects, which isn't so nice if those dependent projects are shared (the names would end up in their common.mk, for
 example).

Overall, your best strategy is probably to use a different workspace for each branch.  It's easiest to stay out of SCM 
trouble that way.

HTH,

Christian


On 17/02/10 01:41 AM, Christian Reinecke wrote: 

	Hi,
	I am trying to manage some projects within the IDE workspace.
	
	I thought I could handle them through Container projects, but this doesn't seem to be as easy as I thought.
	
	For example, each of my projects will contain a QNX-C-Project named IPC. The problem now is, that the different 
customer-projects will all contain this IPC, but in different versions, branches etc.
	
	I now think I need to set up a complete working space for each customer-project, or is there a better way? Whenever I 
create a new Workspace, I need to adjust all settings (i.e. Syntax-Highlighting, Indexer Settings, ...) from scratch.
	
	Isn't there a way to set up a Workspace from a "template"?
	
	This would make it quite easy then to handle the different customer-projects.
	
	Regards,
	Christian
	
	
	
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