On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Andrei Loskutov<[email protected]> wrote: > It is just "usual" learning process for plugin developers, that Eclipse > "update/install" framework "p2" is not so nice as it always advertised [1]. > > You should NEVER install things via GUI and uninstall them manually. This > simply doesn't work, because it is not designed this way.
Thanks. I was starting to suspect that was the case. I think the real problem is that I had no idea I was still "allowed" to install plugins manually. If it's still kosher to download a jar file and drop it into plugins/, then by all means I will revert to that old behaviour. It's faaaaar simpler than struggling with a GUI. Is this stuff documented anywhere? Google'ing turns up various mailing list posts and blog entries, but nothing that looks definitive. > 1) In your case, you should NOE manually copy all the deleted jars back to > the previous place and uninstall them properly via "update" GUI. Oops. I just used "rm -rf", so I think I have zorched my Eclipse installation. Oh well, it's not too hard to reinstall from scratch. > 4) Give Eclipse 3.5 a try - it has much less p2 issues, and more PDT > goodies for plugin developers. I'll consider it. I'm really only interested in seeing if unreleased versions of MercurialEclipse work better than the latest stable release, not in doing serious development. Thanks! Greg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MercurialEclipse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mercurialeclipse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
