From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFS0e-0000Ar-QI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:30:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45AF9E07C1; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ox.emgs.com (ox.emgs.com [194.248.190.99]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D650E07C1 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.193.195] (unknown [194.248.190.97]) by ox.emgs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0168561800A; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:30:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <478F2E28.7040809@multinet.no> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:30:00 +0100 From: Eivind Tagseth User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070531) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-No=EBl_Rivasseau?= Cc: gentoo-java Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Moving Eclipse-3.3 to tree References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: f5104db2-b751-4ded-855d-bb28206e85d2 X-Archives-Hash: 55d0829925e00fd69400fd0bc2d80817 Jean-No=EBl Rivasseau wrote: > 2) It would have a simpler configuration syntax (pure familiar Bash=20 > syntax resulting in things like ECLIPSE_MAX_MEMORY=3D"128M", whereas th= e=20 > syntax in the eclipse.ini file is more obscure even for me - looks=20 > like there should be one option per line). > > What is your feedback on this? Other options could include sourcing=20 > ~/.eclipserc, I don't like that much (it would create yet another .*=20 > file in the home directory). Plus this is probably something to set=20 > globally on the system. > > However, I was wondering if /etc/conf.d would be appropriate for an=20 > application's settings. Most of the stuff there is either server=20 > related (tomcat, apache etc...) or system related (alsa, clock, xdm...) > How about an environment variable like ECLIPSE_MAX_MEMORY (or=20 ECLIPSE_JAVA_OPTS) that's put in a file in /etc/profile.d? This would let administrators set up good system defaults, while=20 allowing users to override the settings in their own shell (command=20 line, og .bashrc etc). Eivind --=20 gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org mailing list