This recipe creates a Pydev (1) project for Eclipse. The goal is to automate the following strategy:

1. Create a Pydev project. The project directory is separated from the source code directories. In other words, the source code will not reside inside the project directory.
2. Create links to the source code directories. This is done by right-clicking the project in the Pydev Package Explorer and selection New->Folder. Then click Advanced and choose "Link to folder in the filesystem."
3. Add the linked directories to the PYTHONPATH of the project.

This approach works very well when working with Zope/Plone, specially if combined with collective.recipe.omelette (2), as pointed in this article (3) by Martin Aspeli.

However it should be flexible enough to allow other strategies.

This project is listed on PyPI, see the link on the right column of this page. Download from there.

(1) http://pydev.sourceforge.net/

(2) http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.recipe.omelette

(3) http://www.martinaspeli.net/articles/eclipse-pydev-and-buildout