Archive for the 'update manager' Category
Update is a many-splintered thing
A recent post in the p2-dev@eclipse.org mailing list got me thinking about the use cases for different ways to install software. Considering that the Linux world has this solved (and then some!) let’s look at the different ways I can update my recently repurposed xubuntu 8.04 laptop. Bear in mind this is without installing OTHER [...]
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HOWTO: Use the p2 director to control where you install
A number of people have remarked to me that there’s a very important feature missing in Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede’s p2 Update UI, which they consider a regression from Eclipse 3.3 Europa’s Update Manager UI.
Specifically, the feature — introduced in Eclipse 3.1? — that allows users to choose where to install a new feature, rather than [...]
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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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p2: Managing Plugins & Features
Last year, I blogged about how to manage your plugins and features with link files and extension locations. Suggested by Euxx, I thought I’d do a quick side-by-side comparison of what p2 provides vs. the old ways. As you’ll see, p2 supports all the old ways, plus a number of new ones. Kudos to the [...]
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HOWTO: Install
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!
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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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
Start [...]
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Forgive me Update Manager, for I have sinned
Never one to shy away from admitting my mistakes, I’d like to draw attention to something that could have been handled more cleanly: migration of EMF and EMFT into Modeling.
Two bugs have been raised (and since closed) on this topic:
Bug 170402: EMF Updates get “403 Forbidden”
Bug 205051: EMFT update site is obsolete
The problem, ultimately, is [...]
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Request For Comment: Will anyone miss the EMF Standalone Zip?
With the advent of jarred plugins, improvements to Update Manager, and
all the new smaller EMF 2.3 features (including 7 core “runtime” ones in
Europa’s Enabling Features category — see bugs 106804 and 189295), the
EMF team is evaluating if the Standalone Zip introduced in EMF 2.1 is
still meaningful and useful to consuming teams, projects, and products.
For more [...]
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