[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Distributing Eclipse preconfigured...

[Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Aires wrote:
> What would be the best way to distribute eclipse pre-configured to 
> developers who may be remote / in house. With everything they need 
> already setup... ie... subclipse installed, cfeclispe installed, aptana 
> installed, svnAnt installed, jsch installed.
> At first I was just thinking dragging the eclipse directory... and im 
> not sure if this would work completely. Along that thread of thought I 
> was also thinking... hell we could just check the entire eclipse folder 
> into SVN and have them grab that. Make it very easy to have them grab 
> the updates that they need etc...
> Any thoughts... I realize there is a .eclipse directory with settings 
> hidden somewhere... i stumble across it sometimes when its late at 
> night. I am not sure if this directory is simply user settings and could 
> be ignored for the most part... There are some any properties that would 
> have to be set for certain builds... but im guessing that could be done 
> by hand.
> Thanks for the help and ill take my question off the air.

You could build your own distro using the EPP project:
    http://www.eclipse.org/epp

However, it's not completely straightforward imho.

You can also try out Yoxos:
    http://ondemand.yoxos.com/geteclipse/start

You can create a profile there and use workspace provisioning too if you 
need it.

Cheers,

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