Eclipse runtime-xyz.product Directories

taylor_venable · 02-24-2007, 09:05 AM

Hello all,

I (have to) use Eclipse for a lot of development work on various projects, and when I run my products I always end up with a bunch of runtime-xyz.product directories sitting in my $HOME afterwards. Does anybody know of a way tell Eclipse to put these directories somewhere else, rather than littering my home directory with them?

As always, thanks for any ideas.

tuxdev · 02-25-2007, 09:02 AM

Hmm, I don't get thos dirs. What version are you using? I'm using 3.2.1.

taylor_venable · 02-25-2007, 06:13 PM

I'm on 3.2.2 now but the same thing happened with 3.2.1 -- these are RCP applications by the way. It seems that the directories contain information about the contributions the plugins make to Eclipse.

tuxdev · 02-25-2007, 06:31 PM

It's rather odd that Eclipse puts it in your home dir instead of a hidden folder in your workspace. You could always write an alias to remove all the dirs with three keystrokes, but that's a workaround, not a solution.

Do they show up if you run stuff outside of Eclipse? Maybe Eclipse can't control it in that case.