[scabbage]

Hi, developers,

I am new to xCode. Now I have a problem that has to do with svn and xcode, which goes like this:

I am building a java tool, which does some text processing on a large corpus (text files). All my corpus are on a remote host. I have been using SSH + Vim the whole time to hand-code everything. Now I really wanna use the wonderful xcode tool for development. But I don't wanna actually copying the corpus to my local machine. I'm thinking of setting up a SVN on the remote host. Then I could check out the code from the remote machine. But how do I deal with the corpus?

Can anyone give me some suggestions on what the best solution to this? Thanks.

[Mithras]

I do this all the time. I'd do one of three things:
1. Download a subset of the corpus and do your development work with that.
2. Do like you really should and develop unit tests -- code against those locally, and then just sync up to run longer tests on the corpus.
3. Suck it up and download the corpus. It can be very useful to have a local copy to browse through -- I've found myself examining text corpora in ways I wouldn't bother to when the files seem "far away".

[scabbage]

Originally Posted by Mithras 

I do this all the time. I'd do one of three things:
1. Download a subset of the corpus and do your development work with that.
2. Do like you really should and develop unit tests -- code against those locally, and then just sync up to run longer tests on the corpus.
3. Suck it up and download the corpus. It can be very useful to have a local copy to browse through -- I've found myself examining text corpora in ways I wouldn't bother to when the files seem "far away".

Mithras,

Thanks for the suggestion. I think I'll try the first option first. One problem with that might be about the path to the corpus. Some of my team will need to access and test my code on the corpus on the remote machine. Maybe I'll just pass that as a run time parameter.

[Mithras]

Yeah, I usually do one of two things with corpus paths:
a) put the corpus in the same path on your local machine. Nothing stopping you from doing a quick
sudo mkdir -p /projects/corpora/text/foo/bar
or whatever on your Mac.

b) Have a FOO_DATA (or whatever) environment variable, which is set appropriately in your .bashrc (or an 'init.sh' script) on the local and remote machines.

Good luck!

[scabbage]

Thanks a lot!!