Eclipse: import “Project from Git” no longer works

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Eclipse: import “Project from Git” no longer works

AlessandroGnoatto opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

Alessandro Gnoatto commented 3 years ago

Hi,

Trying to directly import the finmath library as a project from git in Eclipse 2020-12 does not work. The structure of the project is not correcly recognized, see the following snapshot:

The issue has been reported by some students of mine and replicated on my environment.
Best,
Alessandro

Christian Fries · Answer 1 · Thu Sep 23 2021 03:34:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I missed this one. We all moved to import the project as "Maven Project" a long time ago since this is far more reliable. Maybe the Eclipse project files should be removed.

Alessandro Gnoatto · Answer 2 · Thu Sep 23 2021 04:13:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I see, then I suggest updating the following page

https://www.finmath.net/finmath-lib/gettingstarted.html

In particular I suggest deleting the part "Alternatively you can import the project as “Project from Git” (this works, because an Eclipse .project file is part of the repository):"