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While I really like eclipse as an IDE it´s often hard to use in shared-source environments IMHO. The problem is that eclipse just saves all its data in the .metadata folder in various files. Also there´s no "common" and "user-specific" data. The best way to implement this would be to have data for all users in one database (single file) which then can be uploaded e.g. to SVN. There´s another database for every user, which is put beside the global one. So settings like e.g. compile options for managed projects are shared, while every user can have his own settings for e.g. the UI or plugin options. There´s another database which holds the "system" settings, e.g. proxy settings or other values which aren´t workspace-dependant. This way is implemented in MSVC and IMHO it´s a very nice design. I hope this could be introduced in eclipse as well.
"As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009"
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