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HOWTO: Install

Posted in callisto, documentation, europa, update manager, usability, workflow on November 30th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

After a slew of “my distro’s Eclipse package has some wierd behaviour” questions in #eclipse today, plus “how do I install PDT?” for the umpteenth time, I decided to refactor my previous FAQ answer and also spin off an Eclipse-only version. Why am I bothering you with this bit of trivia? Because I want to [...]

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You got 3.4 in your 3.3!

Posted in errata, europa, ganymede, update manager, usability on November 19th, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Damn. While I did manage to get PDT 1.0 to run on 3.4, I managed to break Update Manager because:

In 3.3.1.1, I now have a working Mylyn 2.2 which prereqs 3.4 (so can’t be updated, but does work). This prevents any other updates, like PDT 1.0 -> 1.0.1.

In 3.4, I have EMF 2.4, WTP 3.0 [...]

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Thirteenth Step

Posted in europa, pde on June 19th, 2007 | No Comments »

Ye gods. As of last week, my little release engineering world is responsible for a total of 13 builds, with two more on the way. Time to crank up a little APC and have a quick look back…

1Q2004: pre-PDE build system migrated to PDE thanks to Marcelo Paternostro.
2Q2004: EMF 2.0 released, using Eclipse 3.0 releng.basebuilder. [...]

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