Re: TurnKey Installer Components

From: D Tim Cummings (ti..riptera.com.au)
Date: Wed Oct 06 2010 - 22:47:57 UTC

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    Like Lachlan, I install eclipse in ~/Applications. If you have more than one user on your Mac using eclipse, but only one installation of eclipse, you have all sorts of permissions problems when each one is installing their own plugins.

    Tim

    On 07/10/2010, at 7:55 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote:

    > On 07/10/2010, at 8:48 AM, Mark Ritchie wrote:
    >
    >> On 6/Oct/2010, at 2:06 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >>> I'm a /Developer/Applications fan, personally ... I also like shuffling the config around so I only have an Eclipse.app and the plugins and configuration folders are inside the bundle.
    >>
    >> Ick, clearly NOT someone who erases and installs every new Xcode build... ;-)
    >>
    >> I put Eclipse in /Additions/Applications myself so it's clear that I've made an addition to the machine.
    >> In a newbie case, I'd default to /Applications
    >> VMMV! ;-)
    >
    >
    > Personally I install in ~/Applications. That way you can just back up your home directory and should a re-install be needed it's simple. No worries re permissions either.
    >
    > with regards,
    > --
    >
    > Lachlan Deck
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