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How to achieve different independent installations [message #90603]

Tue, 08 July 2003 11:31

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: rainer.tschischke.cgey.com

I have installed eclipse 2.0 working very well for development of web
applications.

In future I need to install different IDE solutions (packages of specific
plug-ins) for evaluation purposes on the same PC for e.g. mobile
development. Later that should be deleted in order to try another one.

But I don't want to take the risk to crash my existing installation. Does
eclipse suppot different configurations with different sets of plug-ins? Or
do I have to maintain different independent eclipse installation (using
different install directories).

Which one is the right way to do it? Thanks for your help.

Rainer

Re: How to achieve different independent installations [message #90636 is a reply to message #90603]

Tue, 08 July 2003 11:56

Eclipse User

You can use -configuration or -plugins (this one is deprecated) command line
argument to switch between different plugin sets. But I prefere to use
different directory because plugins consume a lion share of the disk space
occupated by Eclipse. In such a way I keep 3-4 releases simultaneously.

"Rtschi" <rainer.tschischke@cgey.com> wrote in message
news:beeo4a$8sc$1@eclipse.org...
> I have installed eclipse 2.0 working very well for development of web
> applications.
>
> In future I need to install different IDE solutions (packages of specific
> plug-ins) for evaluation purposes on the same PC for e.g. mobile
> development. Later that should be deleted in order to try another one.
>
> But I don't want to take the risk to crash my existing installation. Does
> eclipse suppot different configurations with different sets of plug-ins?
Or
> do I have to maintain different independent eclipse installation (using
> different install directories).
>
> Which one is the right way to do it? Thanks for your help.
>
> Rainer
>
>

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