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Bug 165483

Summary:	[Workbench] Seperation of settings
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Michael Stather <kontakt>
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5	Keywords:	helpwanted
Version:	3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Michael Stather

2006-11-22 12:37:53 EST

While I really like eclipse as an IDE it´s often hard to use in shared-source environments IMHO.
The problem is that eclipse just saves all its data in the .metadata folder in various files. Also there´s no "common" and "user-specific" data.
The best way to implement this would be to have data for all users in one database (single file) which then can be uploaded e.g. to SVN. There´s another database for every user, which is put beside the global one. So settings like e.g. compile options for managed projects are shared, while every user can have his own settings for e.g. the UI or plugin options.
There´s another database which holds the "system" settings, e.g. proxy settings or other values which aren´t workspace-dependant.
This way is implemented in MSVC and IMHO it´s a very nice design. I hope this could be introduced in eclipse as well.

Comment 1 Susan McCourt

2009-07-15 12:36:14 EDT

"As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009"

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 15:33:15 EDT

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Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2021-10-23 18:27:07 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

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