Re: Moving Eclipse-3.3 to tree

Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:
> 2) It would have a simpler configuration syntax (pure familiar Bash 
> syntax resulting in things like ECLIPSE_MAX_MEMORY="128M", whereas the 
> syntax in the eclipse.ini file is more obscure even for me - looks 
> like there should be one option per line).
>
> What is your feedback on this? Other options could include sourcing 
> ~/.eclipserc, I don't like that much (it would create yet another .* 
> file in the home directory). Plus this is probably something to set 
> globally on the system.
>
> However, I was wondering if /etc/conf.d would be appropriate for an 
> application's settings. Most of the stuff there is either server 
> related (tomcat, apache etc...) or system related (alsa, clock, xdm...)
>
How about an environment variable like ECLIPSE_MAX_MEMORY (or 
ECLIPSE_JAVA_OPTS) that's put in a file in /etc/profile.d?

This would let administrators set up good system defaults, while 
allowing users to override the settings in their own shell (command 
line, og .bashrc etc).


Eivind
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