Yep, Alex has it down. Just unzip them to different directories and make sure they don't share workspace directories and you can have as many different Eclipse environments as you need.
On 2/25/2011 9:52 AM, Ken Perry wrote:
Well this could get interesting specially on my mac that runs linux and windows. Hmm wonder how many eclipse versions I can get installed for c++, python, java, etc.... Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Midence Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 9:38 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Eclipse 3.6 Overview Ken, that's easy. Each Eclipse installation is a .zip file. You don't actually run any installer or anything like that. I've got two of them at home. One has pydev on it and the other is a jdt/cdt/web dev toos setup. All I did was create two directories, one named eclipse and the other eclipse pydev. I then unzipped the same eclipse zip file containing 3.6 "Helios" on it and put py dev on one and the other tools on the other one using the Eclipse Market pluggin for the purpose. Neither is aware of the other's existence. To make this even more secure, I made sure they both came up with different workspace directories so that the probability of projects getting confused or overlapping or something like that is eliminated. I then created an Eclipse sub folder inside my start menu by manually going into the start menu folder for all users in documents and settings (I run xp, you see). Inside that sub folder, I put two shortcuts, one called pydev and the other called Eclipse Generic. Since neither of these installations is in my path or anything like that, they never cross paths and since they have shortcuts starting with different letters, I don't accidentally run the wrong one. So, bottom line is, as long as you unzip eclipse installations into separate directories, you should be OK and don't have to worry about screwing up the one you use for work. Regards, Alex M ps Damn! I just realized I actually have 3 eclipse installations on my machine. The 3rd is inside a virtual machine as part of my Vinux installation. On 2/25/11, Ken Perry<whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:If I can figure out how to get multiple versions of eclipse running I will give it a shot. I just can not screw up the one I use for work. Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 7:09 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: RicksPlace Subject: Re: Eclipse 3.6 Overview Like Rick, I'm curious whether anyone has tried the Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF), which is available at http://eclipse.org/actf There are a few downloads for different tools. Does anyone find them useful for particular tasks? How accessible are they to use? Jamal On 2/25/2011 4:38 AM, RicksPlace wrote:Hi Alex et al. That is interesting and one of the names on the Accessibility Project Team is a fellow named Will Pearson. This is a name that should be familiar to many of us old timers in regards to Microsoft's Visual Studio Accessibility and the JAWS Scripts. Thanks for the post. That IBM environment sounds pretty interesting to this old Microsoft Development Tools User. If you, or anyone reading this, have used that environment to develop Websites or Desktop applications let me know about how accessible you found their Development environment compared to say the Visual Studio IDE Environment and Sql Server. Will Pearson was perhaps the greatest help to me when I was first learning to program in the Microsoft Environment and and well, he is pretty bloody good at what he does. Thanks: Rick USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Midence"<alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>To:<programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 1:43 PM Subject: Re: Eclipse 3.6 OverviewI've grown rather fond of Eclipse. So far it's the only cross-platform Ide I've encountered that is accessible in both Windows and Gnome. Alex M On 2/24/11, Homme, James<james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi, This article summarizes what Eclipse is and lists about 60 Eclipse projects. One of them has something to do with accessibility.http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-helios/index.htmlJim ________________________________ This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without theauthor'sprior permission. 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