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Handling multiple Eclipse Installations [message #646198]

Wed, 22 December 2010 16:17

andy

Messages: 5
Registered: June 2010

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Hello,

i have the following problem:

I am an employee from a big company. In my company the developers use Eclipse as the Development Environment.

My task is it to configure the eclipse for the whole company - we have round about 3000 developers which are using the development environment eclipse provided by me.

And some developers need the plugins "wtp, tptp, birt and mylyn", some others need only "Subversive and m2Eclipse" others needs another plugin list. It also can be, that other developers need the plugins "wtp, tptp, birt, mylyn + Subversive, m2Eclipse".

How can i configure Eclipse to start with a selected plugin list?

this is the way i currently configure eclipse to do it:

I download an Basic Eclipse Installation (Eclipse Classic 3.5.2). Then i copy it, start the copy, and install the plugins that were used by all developers.
The PLugins are for example: subversive, m2eclipse, checkstyle, findbugs.

Now i close it. and copy the whole eclipse folder to the Basic Eclipse Installation in "ECLIPSE_HOME/roles/<profilename>".
Then i delete all files from the copy which already exists in the basic eclipse installation.

after i did it i have 2 different eclipse installations in my roles directory inside of the basic eclkipse installation.

to configure eclipse now to use one of the roles dirs i create a link-file in the dropins folder.

if someone want to start with both roles, in the dropins folder should be 2 link-files.

And by starting the basic installation, all roles which are linked with the link-file in the dropins folder, eclipse starts and load the linked plugins into the eclipse.

Is there another Way to do that?

I also tested "bundle pooling" with p2. but there is no possibility to select more than one bundle to use from pool.

or is that wrong????

[Updated on: Wed, 22 December 2010 16:17]

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Re: Handling multiple Eclipse Installations [message #647262 is a reply to message #646198]

Wed, 05 January 2011 12:47

Paul Webster

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

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Do you want to have one large install, that the users can launch from
and only see plugins relevant to their roles?

-> Try one bundle pool and separate configuration areas.

Do you want to have separate pre-packaged installs so that they is
simply executing .../roles/myRole/eclipse.exe ?

-> A lot of bundle duplication, but the easiest to manage. You can
simplify your creation of these by setting up p2 director scripts (then
you don't have to start up the eclipse instance to create valid eclipse
installs).

Or do you want some simple packaging so that users can start up a basic
eclipse and select their role and get there features installed?

-> You can mirror all the features you want into your internal company
site, and set up categories to group the features by role ... selecting
one or more roles will generate a list of features that the install
manager/p2 can then install.

PW

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