On 11 Nov 2020, at 19:56, Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No, as it doesn’t provide an easy means to drag and drop it to the Applications folder.
This assumes you have a single Eclipse instance in your system. Totally inaccurate.
Of course I have a few copies of Eclipse lying around – it is, after all, the platform general developers list. But that doesn’t mean end users will. In fact, when you drag-and-drop on macOS to the /Applications folder, it will ask you if you want to replace the existing one – which is the right answer for 99% of the Eclipse userbase who just want to write code. In embedded development you may very well have a one Eclipse for each target platform, or even for each project, thus the recommended way is to install as many Eclipses as you want in your home folder.
In general Eclipse users on macOS do not do this; nor do other users on other platforms. The fact that you can do so is of course one of the benefits of open source in that users can do what they want. Actually installing Eclipse in /Applications should be discouraged.
That is the standard location for installing apps on macOS. And, to close off this argument (for I feel that there is nothing more that needs to be said) the same pattern is true of the other main Eclipse competitor in the IDE space:
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