Everything you ask should already be
supported. Take a look at documentation, about shared installes, and best,
give it a try and open bugs if things don't work for you.
-Dorian
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Re: [platform-update-dev] Question about
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Sorry to self-reply - I forgot to say that I am at EclipseCon
right now; if there is anyone else here working on this part of Eclipse,
please reply back to me directly (mryan@xxxxxxxxxx).
Let's arrange to meet and discuss.
>>> "Matt Ryan" <mryan@xxxxxxxxxx> 3/21/2006 8:27
am >>>
Hello,
I have a question about Eclipse update on multi-user systems, like Linux.
The essence of the question is this: As we know, Eclipse comes with
a built-in update mechanism. There is also the ability to set up
extension locations, additional places where Eclipse looks for plugins.
My question: Has there been any consideration to tying some of this
functionality together so that users of Eclipse on a multi-user system
can use the update mechanism to install plugins without effecting the system
installation?
Here's a typical use case on Linux. Eclipse on Linux may be installed
in a centralized location (/usr/share/eclipse on our SUSE Linux platform)
instead of inside a user's home directory. This way, every user on
the system can run Eclipse from that one installation. However, this
poses two problems. 1) Most users may not have appropriate permission
to write to the installation location, so Eclipse update will not work
for them. 2) Even if they can write there, they may not want to because
perhaps not every user on the system wants to have the same plugins. 3)
The extension location option is available to them, but this is not user-specific
- meaning, Eclipse doesn't use different extension locations for different
users running on the same system (or if it does I missed it somehow).
What are your thoughts on this?
--
Matt Ryan
Senior Software Engineer
Developer Tools Architect
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