Comments on: Following Eclipse Milestones

By: FBruno69

FBruno69 — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:04:00 +0000

Anyone tried this but having two different OSs?

I used to have winXP but changed to OSx and there are some plugins I would like to use and since I still need some other Win applications, I’ve been using the Eclipse inside my VM…

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:30:20 +0000

P.S. It worked for me on Ubuntu karmic (9.10) 64-bit when moving from Eclipse 3.4 (using a copy manually downloaded from eclipse.org) to 3.5 (using the Ubuntu-supplied version).

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:28:49 +0000

Thanks for that info – great help.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:08:25 +0000

@andig: make sure you uncheck the checkbox “group items by category”.

@kompiro: this trick is not dependent on the client OS, so it should run fine on Vista.

By: kompiro

kompiro — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:28:00 +0000

This is very cool because many users are installed many features in Eclipse but there are no way to migrate to new Eclipse environment.So they used extension locations to share installed features.
I followed this way on my Eclipse.But I couldn’t do this.My environment is Windows Vista.Is it a reason that I couldn’t follow this?

By: andig

andig — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:12:31 +0000

Hi Peter,
I’ve tried your approach but all I’m getting is “There are no categorized items”. Any idea what that means? I have quite a collection installed from instantiations to mylyn and php…
Best regards,
Andreas

By: Gergo

Gergo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:19:02 +0000

@Peter,
I guess Pascal meant you should not need step 1 in your list (downloading a full SDK zip/tgz).
If that’s the case, I fully agree with him – but for some reason it seems everyone(including myself) is installing a fresh Eclipse, instead of just updating it.

It’s like on Debian, instead of just ‘apt-get upgrade’ everyday, reinstalling a fullsystem daily.

So, Peter, thanks for this trick, and I agree it could be even more straightforward than that. But the real time saver would be a safe way to upgrade the full system.

I thought this was a main use case for P2, but does it work in practice?

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:41:07 +0000

@Pascal: because I just do not need to download yet another copy of the same version of, let’s say, WindowBuilder Pro or FindBugs. Transporting these plug-ins from one install to another is a huge time saver – as I already pointed out: no need to look up all those URLs, no need to wait for a download.

By: Pascal Rapicault

Pascal Rapicault — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:40:09 +0000

Why not simply update from one build to another???

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:34:41 +0000

I agree. There are many things I would like to see improved, but which I only encountered a few weeks before Galileo GA.