[eclipse-dev] Eclipse creates runtime-workspace in common area

[Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've come across a problem with Eclipse trying to create a directory
under its install dir.

When you have a plug-in project and select Run > Run As > Run-time
workbench, a directory called runtime-workspace is created beneath the
directory where Eclipse itself is installed.  Clearly, this cannot
work on a multi-user system where that directory is shared between
users, but I'm not sure where the runtime-workspace directory should
go.

I would have expected any scratch area that Eclipse creates must be
below the data area specified by "-data".  This patch puts the
runtime-workspace there.

Andrew.



Index: BasicLauncherTab.java
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RCS file: /usr/cygnus/eclipse-cvsroot/org.eclipse.pde.ui/src/org/eclipse/pde/internal/ui/launcher/BasicLauncherTab.java,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -c -2 -p -r1.3 BasicLauncherTab.java
*** BasicLauncherTab.java	30 Sep 2002 14:56:52 -0000	1.3
--- BasicLauncherTab.java	9 Oct 2002 13:46:14 -0000
*************** public class BasicLauncherTab
*** 218,226 ****
  	static String getDefaultWorkspace() {
  		ExternalModelManager.initializePlatformPath();
! 		IPath ppath =
! 			new Path(
! 				PDECore.getDefault().getPluginPreferences().getString(
! 					ICoreConstants.PLATFORM_PATH));
! 		IPath runtimeWorkspace = ppath.append(RT_WORKSPACE);
  		return runtimeWorkspace.toOSString();
  	}
--- 218,222 ----
  	static String getDefaultWorkspace() {
  		ExternalModelManager.initializePlatformPath();
! 		IPath runtimeWorkspace = Platform.getLocation().append(RT_WORKSPACE);
  		return runtimeWorkspace.toOSString();
  	}