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Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement for the functionnment of separate plugins... Up to now, we can set our plugins into separate directories and then refreneced them in to links directory... I would likre to propose to mimic the starting of the workbench when we can choose the workspace we want to use, ie the ability at launch to choose also the set of external plugins directory we want to use... Example : we have the following firectories eclipse/plugins (default) myPath1/GEF myPath1/EMF myPath2/Omondo myPath3/PhpEclipse and the following external configuration files : myConfig1.xml containing Omondo, EMF, GEF myConfig2.xml containging only PhpEclipse At start, we could choose to use the config1 or the config2...with the same eclipse installation... It should be convenient for a developper alone, but more for a team... regards Xavier
This is interesting and related to the ability to login and have different sets of plugins run depending on the user. moving to update. Update is in complete control of what plugins are installed as well as being the one who defines the notion of links dirs.
It looks like what is needed is: 1. the ability to store the existence of multiple configurations somewhere, let say as eclipse/configuration/configurations.xml. That file (configurations.xml) will contain the name and location to the available configuration (config1 and config2). 2. When eclipse starts, the user is prompted to pick up a configuration, much like the way it is prompted to pick up a workspace. The problem I see with this part is that, unlike prompting for the workspace, prompting for the configuration must happen before any plugin runs. Basically, the code would have to be in the EclipseStarter. Jeff, comments ?
an additional comment : What I see as benefit of such architecture too, is the fact we should be able to improve the rapidity of the workbench... For my own experience, I used to use only one eclipse installation for all my projects (I've several workspaces for each kind of project)..My projects can be of very different natures : * a web site/intranet made in Php * a web site (bug report tool) made in Jsp * a project for cartography (geotools) and Mysql * a groovy project Currently my plugins directory has a lot of plugins which have not to work systematically together...and I imagine that this must have an impact in a certain way on performances of the workbench (maybe not ;) ) regards Xavier
Moving to Runtime: Jeff, see my comment #1: this request is not about the links file, but about the ability to pick which configuration to run with. The support is already there, because the user can pass -configuration. What is missing is having a dialog that prompts the user to select a configuration. It looks like EclipseStarter or eclipse.exe should be the place to prompt.
yes and no. This is the standard bootstrapping problem. In order for us to ask anything we need SWT etc. To get SWT etc we have ot be running some configuration or duplicate a large amount of code and have various undesireable side effects. So yes, I was wrong to put this over to update (my apologies) and no, we can't really do anything about it either. EclipseStarter or Main are too early. We have been searching for ways to do this and welcome any suggestions. Note, having eclipse.exe ask is not an option.
Closing as dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106169 ***
