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nobody
nobody

Reputation: 8263

Is it possible to install all Eclipse plugins?

Possible silly question alert.

Being a bit of a hoarder, when I noticed that you can check all available sources after downloading Eclipse and then download and install all of those plugins I was ecstatic! I don't have to do that all manually! Yet I've tried it twice and each time I try to install all of them I can't boot Eclipse back up (it just hangs on the splash screen with no loading messages). I've tried deleting my .metadata folder and running it via ./eclipse -clean but both haven't helped. Is it just not possible to run with every single plugin installed?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 51

Answers (1)

GhostCat
GhostCat

Reputation: 140457

"Hoarding" can turn into a very bad habit.

Maybe this is your chance to learn to you should try to resist the impulse "add more, please".

Keep in mind that Eclipse is a TOOL to help you creating better software. It can't help you when you blow it up to a degree that it is just busy with managing all the things you added.

I would even suggest to act in an opposite way: ONLY use the plugins and features that help you to get your job done. But for those plugins - learn to USE all the functionality that they offer to you. So, if you want please the "inner hoarder" in you: tell him to hoard knowledge; not things. "Things" consume space, and finally "energy" - there are good reasons that the Chinese art of "Feng Shui" asks people to keep LESS items around.

Upvotes: 1

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