Why does my eclipse project not have a build path?

Question

What is the advantage with not having a build path in eclipse? Why is that setting default when it\'s like something you\'d never use? It seems eclipse indigo was developed to m

Answer 1

It's not a good practice to commit IDE related files into source control. What if someone in team uses different IDE? It might have been only option at a time when OP asked this question.

New versions on eclipse (4.x) takes care of this automatically. Probably by observing what kind of source and build files you have in your project.