+1
> Windows has a concept of "global" installs vs "user specific" installs.
> The former goes into "c:\program files". The latter goes into
> c:\users\xxx\AppData.
>
> Netbeans is kind of odd in that it installs into the global location,
> but uses user-specific directories for data. It probably makes sense to
> ask users whether they want global vs user-specific installs and then
> keep the data in each respective location (instead of crossing the wires).
>
> Gili
>
> On 2018-03-20 5:39 PM, Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva wrote:
> > @cowwoc
> >
> > I was debugging and hacking lombok, and so making Netbeans crazy. I won't
> > go through the details in this thread to not hijack it and I will answer
> > something in the other one soon. However (lombok aside) it is rare for me
> > to get Netbeans confused about something, it was much more common some
> > years ago.
> >
> > Also, I understand about the security stuff, but I guess that this should
> > be optional. If Alice and Bob cooperatively programs in the same computer
> > both with their own users, then if Alice installs a (say) Jenkins plugin,
> > Bob shouldn't be required to download it once again. Also, if Alice
> > compiles that maven project with millions of dependencies that downloads
> > the internet, it would be a pain if later, Bob have to do it all over
> > again. So, maybe there could be a setting somewhere to say (a: "I use
> > Netbeans exclusively within my user account"; b: "I want to share my
> > Netbeans with other users accounts of this computer").
>
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