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Re: eclipse plugins per user

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Thomas Koch wrote:
> I'm not experienced enought with eclipse to know, whether such a setup
> would make sens for eclipse too. However what surely makes sense, would be
> the ability to install plugins not only as debian packages, but also via
> the eclipse update mechanism.

Yes, that's an absolute requirement for getting any sort of usefulness out 
of Eclipse packaging.

> I've seen, that there formerly was a possibility to declare external
> plugin locations for eclipse with a "links" subfolder. But this is
> deprecated now and can only be reenabled with a config setting[1]. Does
> anybody know an equivalent way to use additional plugin locations?

Yes. Eclipse now has a "drop-ins" mechanism (see the p2 documentation). An 
installation can have any number of "drop-in folders". These are directories 
where plugins can be placed, and they will be automatically picked up by 
Equinox. Upstream Eclipse has "eclipse/dropins" as the default dropins 
folder.

So it would be good if the Eclipse package had the following drop-ins 
folders by default:

  /usr/local/share/eclipse/dropins
  ${user.home}/.eclipse/dropins 

Plus other directories for Debian-packaged plugins, typically under 
/usr/share/eclipse. That should cover most needs.

(I'm not sure how the user would *disable* plugins that are installed 
system-wide.)

Cheers,

Marcus
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