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[jira] [Commented] (NETBEANS-516) Shareable Netbeans configuration
data
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John Muczynski commented on NETBEANS-516:
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After reading the mailing list, here are the thoughts that stick in my head.
It seems that, to get the most bang for the buck, different sets of files should be examined:
# the maven cache in the .m2 folder
# the maven central repository cache which is maven indexes/central/ and is apparently 2 GB or larger
# the NetBeans cache
# other NetBeans files
For 1. it would seem appropriate to help the user to configure their system to use a shared .m2 cache location.
For 2. it would seem that NetBeans is writing this file to disk and could simply write it in a shared location.
For 3. Issue NETBEANS-514 requests the ability to do something about the NetBeans cache.
For 4. I think there is only diminishing returns. Would providing the ability to purge these files provide any benefit?
Kind Regards,
Johnny
> Shareable Netbeans configuration data
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>
> Key: NETBEANS-516
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-516
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva
> Priority: Minor
>
> As discussed in the dev mailing list, currently if Netbeans is installed in a computer with multiple user accounts, a different set of configurations will be created for each account. This means that each user will have his/her own set of Netbeans plugins and maven repository.
> However, this situation might be undesirable. This means that many plugins would be download and installed in duplicate by different users. This also means that maven repositories might be duplicated consuming double network traffic to be populated and double disk space.
> Security is a reason to mantain these configuration separation between different users. However, the user might not want that and instead would like to share his workspace with other users in the same computer. So, and option asks if Netbeans files should be stored in user private space or in shared space should be provided.
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