[Nix-dev] Re: Eclipse packaging

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>
writes:

> There is one problem with the Eclipse Classic Nix package: if you change and
> rebuild it, you lose all your settings, since Eclipse keeps its settings in a
> directory that contains a number based on (apparently) its installation directory:
>
> $ ll ~/.eclipse/
> total 7
> drwxr-xr-x 4 eelco users 1024 2009-11-20 15:27 org.eclipse.platform_3.5.0_120928261
> drwxr-xr-x 4 eelco users 1024 2009-11-20 15:29 org.eclipse.platform_3.5.0_12853914
> ...

A disguised pointer!  Just to trick the conservative GC!  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.