Perhaps the committers could cut a new release? I know I'm looking forward to not having to enter synchronization settings each time... -jeff
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Greg Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
