Re: [platform-update-dev] Supporting individual user plugins in a common

[Don Estberg <destberg1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:32:51PM -0500, Suresh Venkat wrote:
> 
> We have a single instance of eclipse located on /usr/local/eclipse. Every 
> user has been setup with their own workspace (~/workspace) which is invoked 
> when they start up their instance of eclipse as follows:
> 
> eclipse -data ~/workspace
> 
> There are a default set of plugins that can be used by every user through 
> the /usr/local/eclipse install. We are trying to set it up so that every 
> user can setup an external set of plugins that can be used when they start 
> up eclipse - in addition to the default set of plugins.
> 
> My question is:
> 1. is this feasible ?
> 2. if so - and if it's to be done using the -configuration option, could 
> someone respond as to how it can be done.
> 
> I did find a platform.cfg located in ~/workspace/.metadata/.config which 
> points to the base plugin. I am not sure what modifications I need to make 
> to this to achieve the above.
> 
> Examples on how to achieve this would be very useful.

Suresh,

See my example at

http://eclipsewiki.swiki.net/2586

for one way of doing this.

This is not quite what I was doing, but it is close enough, so that you
can use the example there as a starting point.

Don