On Jun 20, 2009, at 7:40 AM, David Avendasora wrote:
>> I am often logging in as different users both wanting to use
>> eclipse. This has caused problems for eclipse since 3.2. I solved
>> the problem by each user having their own eclipse install in their
>> home directory. e.g.,
>>
>> /Users/tim/Applications/eclipse
>
> Uhg. That must make updates and configuration incredibly painful
> (redundant).
>
> Can't you give the staff group write privileges to the /Applications/
> eclipse directory? Won't that let _any_ user use it. Now, having two
> users simultaneously using eclipse would still be a problem....
If the Eclipse folder is writable, then all config info is stored
inside it, i.e. ~/.eclipse is not used (it does not even get created
in 3.4.2). The info includes the location of the workspace folder.
That would be conflicting for two different users.
Rudy
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