Single Eclipse install with multiple Configurations and Workspaces

Question

Been trying to get this figured out for a few days, so please don\'t flag as a duplicate.

What I want is the following:

1. One Eclipse installation, i.e.

Answer 1

The configuration directory contains the runtime-install information of the current eclipse. But by default there is usually a p2/ directory at the same level as the configuration directory, which contains p2 profile information and the plugin version lineups. On top of that, the base eclipse install (the bundle pool) is in plugins/ and features/ directories at the same level as p2/ by default.

With p2 doing the underlying provisioning, you can do things like create a shared bundle pool (with all the plugins) but still create separate configuration directories and p2 profiles to controls which plugins are launched. But it sounds like you want the extra plugins (like scala and python) in their own separate directories, not in the common bundle pool.

You will have to investigate the mysteries of p2 if you want to create a layout like that. A good starting point:

• p2 director
• blog: Multiple Architecture, Single Build
• blog: Adventures in Multi-Architecture Eclipse
• Bug 342156 - p2 director ignored bundlepool when using -roaming