As you may have already noticed, the location of the .fbprefs file
has reverted back to the root directory of each project. So 1.1.1-rc1
was the only release in which .fbprefs was outside of the project
directory.
Several of you have mentioned that it should actually be stored in
the project's .settings directory. I like that idea, but I'm having
trouble finding any Eclipse documentation to corroborate this. The
code in org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.ProjectPreferences
creates/reads/writes files in the .settings directory, but the
FindBugs plugin doesn't use the Eclipse preference APIs. Do Eclipse
conventions permit the FindBugs plugin to place a custom file in
the .settings directory? (I see no API to retrieve the directory or
its name, but I could certainly hard-code ".settings" into the path
and choose a file name that is unlikely to conflict with anything.)
If anyone has links to Eclipse documentation in this area, I'd love
to see them. I've had trouble finding decent Eclipse documentation.
In any case, from now through the final 1.1.1 release the location
of .fbprefs will be as described in the first paragraph. I apologize
for any trouble you had with 1.1.1-rc1.
(As for the .fbwarnings file, it moved into workspace .metadata
starting with 1.1.1-rc1 and will remain there.)
-brian
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