I have not shared MY development machine(s) with other people for as long as I can remember, so I've installed Eclipse in /Applications. Not that I'm advocating for this...
Do you guys actually share your machines with other developers?
Paul
On Oct 7, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Timo Hoepfner wrote:
> I agree with Dave on this one.
>
> Timo
>
> Am 07.10.2010 um 13:54 schrieb David Avendasora:
>
>> I'm pretty against ~/Applications. Nothing installs there by default. Why would we make an installer that's targeted at getting new users up and running install in a place other than the normal /Applications? Sure ~/Applications is _better_ but it's not _normal_.
>>
>> If they're advanced enough to want it in ~/Applications then they can move it.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
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>>> I had no idea what I was getting myself into....heh.
>>>
>>> This is for newbies...generally speaking, so we'll do ~/Applications...maybe offer a choice...dunno yet.
>>>
>>> -j
>>>
>>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
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>>>>> I was the same until recently when I switched to a new machine and forgot to copy over eclipse for the umteen'th time. So I moved it to my home directory instead.
>>>>>
>>>>> If eclipse kept it's plugins and other global config in my home directory I would have no reason to keep it there also.
>>>> welcome to one of the longest-standing debates in eclipse history
>>>>
>>>> ms
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