On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 14:19 +0100, Bruno Medeiros wrote: […] > If you add the update site for the new Eclipse release (for example > http://download.eclipse.org/releases/kepler for Kepler) to your current > installation, and run the "Check for Updates" it should update Eclipse > and retain all the extra plugins you have installed. (it should update > all Eclipse projects that are part of the Kepler release, basically > nearly all projects that hosted at Eclipse.org)
Having backed everything up (which means creating about 6 replicas for me), I took the plunge and s/4.2/4.3/ && s/juno/kepler/ for all my update sites and updated. It appears to have done the needful. Thanks for this, it has saved many hours of swearing. > It's a bit annoying that this isn't done automatically in some way, yes. > And also annoying that the update site for new releases is not easily > found on the Eclipse website either. "Bit annoying" amounts to a mega-understatement :-) Now I just have to remove all the jars that are no longer needed. Why doesn't Eclipse "garbage collect it's local cache? -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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