| Global preferences in 3.5 [message #492434] |
Tue, 20 October 2009 12:35 |
 Miles Daffin
Messages: 86
Registered: July 2009 |
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Hi All,
I have been posting on this subject under the now misleading title of 'Global preferences in 3.4'. Please see the following thread for details:
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=49089 8
I will include my last message here for your convenience.
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Hi All,
In case anyone is interested the task of provinding default global preferences is harder in 3.5. Here is what I had to do.
1. Create a 3.5 default install based on classic with all the features/plugins required by default.
2. Configure this install (Windows > Preferences)
3. Export all preferences to an epf file which is then converted into an ini file that can be applied via at the command line via -plugincustomization: remove the /instance/ and /configuration/ scope prefixes; remove any preferences that we really do not want as global defaults.
When I tested the resulting file using the -plugincustomization command line argument on an unconfigured installation I noticed that some preferences had not been applied: anything under Install/Update and General/Network Connections. It seems that these preferences are persisted in .prefs files in the eclipse install. So I tried copying them from the configured install to the same location in the test install and voila - they were applied.
All this seems pretty inconsistent and could do with looking at. Does anyone know if there is a suitable bugzilla to which I could add some observations? If not I will open one.
Thanks,
Miles
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