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Bug 237656 - Show target dir in Projects view
Summary: Show target dir in Projects view
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: projects
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Maven (show other bugs)
Version: 7.4
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Milos Kleint
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Reported: 2013-10-25 10:57 UTC by puce
Modified: 2013-10-25 12:02 UTC (History)
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Description puce 2013-10-25 10:57:02 UTC 
Show the target dir (or more specifically ${project.build.directory}) in the Projects view.

Often it is required to check the generated output.

This would avoid the need to switch between Projects view and File view.

Note: This is also the behavior of Eclipse.
Comment 1 Milos Kleint 2013-10-25 11:12:15 UTC 
sorry, if there's ever need to see what's in target/ folder, then there's the Files view for it. The projects view is to contain just important information used for development daily.
Comment 2 puce 2013-10-25 11:18:49 UTC 
This is a pity, as I found this quite inconvenient in the past resp. quite useful in Eclipse.

Especially since the selections in Projects view and Files view are not 100% synchronized.
Comment 3 Milos Kleint 2013-10-25 11:29:29 UTC 
how often do you check the output directory?
Comment 4 puce 2013-10-25 12:00:12 UTC 
If I want to check/ work on e.g.

 -  the Javadoc
 -  Maven filtered resources
 -  Maven Assembly outputs
 -  Generated Maven sites
 -  Generated Maven artifacts
 -  OSGi POM-first generated Manifest files
 -  etc.

then for each of those tasks there might be many iterations of "tweak, re-build, check".
Comment 5 puce 2013-10-25 12:02:10 UTC 
Maybe there could be an option (global, project group, project) to show or hide ${project.build.directory} in the Projects view?