Archive for the 'ganymede' Category
HOWTO: Install features/plugins without using the p2 UI
One simple scenario for all you “I like to just unzip stuff” people out there, who don’t want/need p2’s ability to resolve dependencies a la Synaptic / apt-get / yum. If you find the new p2 UI is overkill for your needs, you can still kick it old-school:
Download the latest Eclipse SDK or EPP bundle
Download [...]
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Update, Updated
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been rebuilding the way the Modeling Project’s update sites work. There are a number of reasons for this:
To provide a Milestone (S) update site, separate from Interim builds (I & M), in accordance with what GMF & GEF used to provide before they adopted my build system.
To reduce [...]
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Equinox p2: First Impressions
As Dave suggests, sometimes it’s better to show rather than tell people how to do software configuration. So, last night I downloaded Wink and played with p2 for the first time.
First of all, let me just say Wink 2.0 for Windows is pretty cool. Wink 1.5 for Linux is almost as cool, but certainly [...]
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You got 3.4 in your 3.3!
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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Liberate tutume ex illa sollicitudo
Addendum to this morning’s post:
As Ed correctly points out, Ganymede M3 is not a Release in the sense of a it being a Gold Master (GM) though it is generally available (GA) if you know where to look.
However, all the synonyms I’ve found have odd connotations associated with them…
Emancipation? Say it with me in [...]
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Ganymede M3: First Impressions
With M3’s release just around the corner, it was time to try it out and attempt to install the updates to all my 3.3-compliant plugins. I decided to use Sun’s Java 6 runtime. Here’s a log of the experience:
Unpack eclipse-SDK-3.4M3-linux-gtk.tar.gz into /home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse34/, by hand or with this script.
Copy existing Eclipse 3.3-based .link files into /home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse34/links/:
eclipse-plugins-tweaklets.link
path=/home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse-plugins-tweaklets
eclipse-plugins-pdt.link
path=/home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse-plugins-pdt
eclipse-plugins.link
path=/home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse-plugins
eclipse-plugins-mylyn.link
path=/home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse-plugins-mylyn
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