+1 At 11:55 25.01.02 +0100, you wrote: >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.
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