I'm trying to understand if there is any way to create a new force.com project in Eclipse with the force.com ide and NOT have to suffer the hurdle of also extracting read-only copies of all installed managed packages in the org in question ?

Yes, this is the good old out of memory error and I have already increased my eclipse.ini settings

Per this article : https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewSolution?urlname=Why-does-the-Force-com-IDE-time-out-or-display-a-Java-heap-size-error-when-I-m-building-a-new-project&language=en_US

it seems this is standard behavior, but if the org has so many managed packages that it prevents you from even starting out with just a single class file in your package.xml this prevents any real development from within the eclipse IDE.

I was able to checkout all the standard developer metadata ( classes, aura, pages, etc ) with other metadata api tools without an issue in a few minutes but the force.com IDE prevents me from doing this due to this apparent requirement to also get all the managed packages.

Is the any alternative or workaround that would allow me to create a workspace for this org and not have to get all the managed packaged ? 
 

Trapdoor is awesome but I do have some things that I wish I could control or fix.

 

1.) Duplicate URL.

I entered a URL into my list of servers as http://www.salesforce.com/login and then again as http://www.salesforce.com/login/

Trapdoor lists these as 2 distinct servers but if I delete one in order to correct it, Trapdoor deletes the other server in the list too.

I wish I could manually edit the list of servers and login details so that I could correct my typo.

 

2.) Sorting

I see that there is a "sort by alias" option but I don't see this working as expected.

If I had access to the list of servers ( see 1 above ) I would be happy to manually edit and order my servers.

 

Thanks !!

This code will not compile in the Dev. Console:
<!--docsample:nestedComponents-->
<aura:component>
    Observe!  Components within components!

    <docsample:helloHTML/>

    <docsample:helloAttributes whom="component composition"/>
</aura:component>


This code will compile:

<!--docsample:nestedComponents-->
<aura:component>
    Observe!  Components within components!

    <c:helloHTML/>

    <c:helloAttributes whom="component composition"/>
</aura:component>

The name space is wrong for the two nested components.  (Unless I am completely hallucinating!  And I might be - it's Friday!)

Trapdoor is awesome but I do have some things that I wish I could control or fix.

 

1.) Duplicate URL.

I entered a URL into my list of servers as http://www.salesforce.com/login and then again as http://www.salesforce.com/login/

Trapdoor lists these as 2 distinct servers but if I delete one in order to correct it, Trapdoor deletes the other server in the list too.

I wish I could manually edit the list of servers and login details so that I could correct my typo.

 

2.) Sorting

I see that there is a "sort by alias" option but I don't see this working as expected.

If I had access to the list of servers ( see 1 above ) I would be happy to manually edit and order my servers.

 

Thanks !!