Eclipse, interesting question...perhaps

[Gavin Tranter]

Hi all,
I have an interesting question, the problem is quite boring, I cant get Eclipse updater to work though my companies firewall, no surprise.
(Some packages I can only seem to find though the updater rather then download and install from local)

So rather then fight with network support, I noticed that Eclipse is a very nicely self contained application, all the libraries seem to be in the Eclipse install directory.

So can I left the install from my home machine, onto my works one, taking with me the libraries i need?

I will try and let you know, but if anybody has tried it and can give me a heads up as to the issues or that it cant be done that would be great.

G

[Gavin Tranter]

Yes you can

[Ilja Preuss]

That's how we put eclipse on a new machine regularly: just copy the existing installation from a different machine.

[Tim Holloway]

Me too. In my case, I have much slower net access at home, so I just burn a replica of the work Eclipse onto a CD and take it home. In the process I get the added perk of being able to exactly replicate a given Eclipse setup just in case some future disaster makes reverting to an old IDE configuration necessary.

[Gavin Tranter]

Its quite neat being able to do that.
The only problem I had was that because I chose not to have my workspace inside Eclipse it complained just a little.

G