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I never understood why Eclipse stores plugins in the workspace directory. If you have multiple workspaces that you switch between, you have to install your plu

I never understood why Eclipse stores plugins in the workspace directory. If you have multiple workspaces that you switch between, you have to install your plugins into each of them.

james_a_craig 10y ago
Because if there's more than one of you working on the same project, you want to keep your plugin versions in sync too, I assume.
- saiya-jin 10y ago
  no it doesn't as other poster mentioned, it's in eclipse installation itself (would be stupid idea even on first sight)
- wodencafe 10y ago
  But that sync happens at the Project level, not Workspace level.
nottorp 10y ago
The real prank here is obviously getting a friend to use Eclipse. I'm not sure you'll ever be forgiven.
didymospl 10y ago
It doesn't. .metadata/.plugins in the workspace contains just the plugin metadata(settings, temp files, caches etc) related to the projects in your workspace. Plugins themselves are stored in the eclipse installation directory (%eclipse_home%/plugins to be specific).