Why does IDEA store the files related to a specific user in its installation directory? This means that a separate installation is required for each user, rather than having a single global installation as I'm used to on a Unix system.
It would be great if the config files, the system cache and any other user-writable files could be moved out of the installation directory, so that there could be a global write-protected installation directory. To make it easier to implement this feature the user-writable directory could be specified by a system property, and the default could be the installation directory so that those who are not interested in the feature would not have to do anything special to make IDEA work just like it does now. Then I could just edit idea.sh to specify -Didea.user.directory=$HOME/idea/ or something like that. This would save disk space (although of course IDEA is quite small compared to many other modern programs), and more importantly it would be easier to upgrade IDEA to a new version globally rather than having to install a new version for every single user. _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
