[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: shareable readonly workspace?

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maggie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to have an Eclipse workspace that is shareable with multi 
> users? I am in particular interested in suggestion works with CDT.
>
> The reason I am asking for this is that in an environment with huge 
> project source, we would like to maintain a "research" workspace which 
> has project(s) see and index the entire source code. The "research" 
> workspace would be updated/synchronized nightly with the source 
> repository. New index database is also built nightly.

There are a few problems with this.
a) a workspace can only be in use by a single instance of Eclipse at any 
one time, so only one user would be able to be looking at it at a time.
b) workspaces are not designed or intended to be shared; they contain 
machine-specific and Eclipse-installation-specific information.
c) hosting a workspace on a network drive has traditionally been 
recommended against; it can introduce performance degradation because of 
the huge amount of disk I/O that Eclipse does. It may be more feasible 
in the later releases than it used to be, but I'd bet the chances of 
performance problems increases with really large workspaces (as you seem 
to have).

Sorry, but I don't have any other ideas to meet the need you describe.

Eric