Bug 526923

Summary:	SWT Update site links are wrong
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Conrad Groth <info>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Alexander Kurtakov <akurtakov>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, lshanmug, lufimtse, niraj.modi, sravankumarl
Version:	4.7	Keywords:	Documentation, triaged
Target Milestone:	4.8 M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Conrad Groth

2017-11-07 03:12:19 EST

The web page https://www.eclipse.org/swt/updatesite.php shows swt update sites, that are not reachable anymore, e.g. all links starting with http://www.eclipse.org/swt/updates/

I couldn't find the swt.tools package in any eclipse update site before 4.5. Is there any special SWT update site or other place, where I can find older versions of swt.tools?

Comment 1 Leo Ufimtsev

2017-11-07 09:26:08 EST

Thank you for the report. ~Investigating..

Comment 2 Alexander Kurtakov

2017-11-07 09:29:38 EST

You would better build them yourself. Although I wonder why I would anyone want to  work on pre 4.5 SWT nowadays :).

Comment 3 Leo Ufimtsev

2017-11-07 09:34:03 EST

From what I gather, after 4.5 swt tools got moved into the main update site, e.g:
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.8-I-builds

The older swt tools were made available via the update sites. The update sites seemed to have gone down, but usually most developers work on newer 4.5+ builds. So for old 4.5 builds as Alex suggests, you might have to build swt tools manually your self.

We should update the documentation and reflect that.

Comment 4 Alexander Kurtakov

2018-02-09 03:17:03 EST

Changed the page to state that whoever wants to work on older versions has to compile swt tools manually.