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user414441
user414441

Reputation:

Can an extra plugin directory be specified on command line

With Eclipse 3.4, is it possible to provide an ADDITIONAL plugin directory from command line? Something like:

eclipse -plugin_dir  D:/myproduct/V1.1/plugins -clean

This is just to save copying of plugins everytime.

While copying can be done with script, it's possible that user may not have write permissions to system install eclipse.

Follow up:

The solution given by @VonC is for reusing same plugins in multiple Eclipses.

I'm looking for a to use Multiple versions of plugins with Same Eclipse. ( If user has Version 1.1 and Vesion 1.2 of my plugin installed )

Resolved:

  1. The directory pointed to by -Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory should end with a directory named 'eclipse'

  2. Inside this eclipse where should be directory called plugins,

  3. place all the jars at in the plugins directory

  4. create a launcher , which launch eclipse with additional command line:

-vmargs -Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=AbsolutePath\eclipse

One may want to add -clean also ..

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2289

Answers (2)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323363

As mentionned in Installing Eclipse (3.4+) plugins in a directory other than ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins, the right way is to define a bundle pools (also introduced here)

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See my previous answer for more details.

Upvotes: 0

Aaron Digulla
Aaron Digulla

Reputation: 328556

It space is not a big issue, users can copy the system install of eclipse into a work directory and put additional plugins/features in the dropins/ directory.

Upvotes: 0

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