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Workspace-resident plugins/features [message #509011]

Thu, 21 January 2010 01:57

Eclipse User

First, I apologize if this is in the wrong forum, I wasn't quite sure which of a couple this might be best posted in.

I'm using Eclipse, with the JDT and some other things, on OS X. I currently have one workspace with quite a number of large projects in it. These projects can be coarsely clumped together in to a few groups. For each group there are a set of plugins used by all the projects in that group, but not necessarily by projects in the other groups.

So, I'd like to create a workspace for each group and install the plugins specific to each group in to that workspace, not in to the normal "global" Eclipse location. This is especially important because one set of projects in particular has some plugins that aren't stable and I don't want them "polluting" my environment when I'm working in another workspace.

Is there a way to install a plugin to a workspace instead of globally? Could some one point me to some documentation about it?

Thanks.

Re: Workspace-resident plugins/features [message #509148 is a reply to message #509011]

Thu, 21 January 2010 09:07

Eclipse User

What you would do is create a different target platform in each
workspace. So in ws1 your target platform is
<active_platform>+<plugin_dir_1>. In ws2 your target platform is
<active_platform>+<plugin_dir_2>. etc

See Preferences>Plug-in Development>Target Platform

PW

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Re: Workspace-resident plugins/features [message #509339 is a reply to message #509148]

Fri, 22 January 2010 02:32

Eclipse User

Thanks Paul, this looks like what I want. Is there also a way to redirect software installed via software sites to a particular plugin directory? Or does this multiple plugin directory set up require plugins to be installed manually if they are to be installed in the alternative directories?

Re: Workspace-resident plugins/features [message #509908 is a reply to message #509339]

Mon, 25 January 2010 13:19

Eclipse User

Chad La Joie wrote:
> Thanks Paul, this looks like what I want. Is there also a way to
> redirect software installed via software sites to a particular plugin
> directory? Or does this multiple plugin directory set up require
> plugins to be installed manually if they are to be installed in the
> alternative directories?

well ... sorta. You can either create installs with the plugins you
want, and then use separate installs as separate target platforms.

Or you can simply use the target platform preference pages to populate
your different targets (from directories, local update sites/p2 repos,
remote update sites/p2 repos. etc).

Unless you have a very clear idea of what you want, I would use the
target platform pages. I've often downloaded zipped p2 repos so I can
easily build my installations/targets when available.

PW

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Paul Webster
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http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse .platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

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