How do you manage your eclipse installation, that is, basic installation, plug-ins and workspace settings, key people, 3.5 = > 3.6) and use on two or more computers (desktop + notebook).
My current setup is basically to manage the installation on multiple installations in parallel, i.e. manually adding new plug-ins I installed on one another, and when I am from one directory to another For the second copy has not been used in a long time for updates I usually get the latest version to run once a month, the original distributor To extend by downloading and manually major updates to reinstall the plug-in matching version of the new major version of Eclipse.
However, there are some drawbacks in this approach:
- Intensive from time to time
- Updated discrepancies (updated sites to change location, Some versions do not work because of inconsistency.
- There is no "global" update site, I have to manually manage many locations
I tried alternatives like Yox for configuration management, but there plug-in cow And / or did not properly test together together.
I took a look at IDE as IDE, the one thing I really loved was the updated management: centralized and 90% of the functionality is provided as a core that is tested and updated.
Question: How do you manage your eclipse installations and work with updates
With my experience with other Eclipse users, they have at least one problem with updates, but I have not heard any solution yet.
I've heard good things about other developers of Google.
They use this within Google to manage the Eclipse environment in the team.
It was open in May 2010 opened, and you can find more information in.
Note that the workspace mechanic does not yet manage the plug-in installation (see): This "plugin preferences", but installing plug-ins is not yet supported.
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