| Re: [cdt-dev] Update CDT installation after small patch - how? |
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Toni, you were right! That's it. After removing the CDT feature (from dropins/features) and rebuilding my config area, I'm now able to update the cdt.ui plugin without removing the original jar, and the patched one gets picked up. Problem solved, thanks!!! Leherbauer, Anton (Toni) wrote on 2011-05-27 13:57: Do you have features as well in the dropins folder? Features reference particular plugin versions which prevents an automatic upgrade - AFAIK. Toni -----Original Message----- From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Achim Bursian Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 13:35 To: CDT General developers list. Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Update CDT installation after small patch - how? I guess that won't help here, as (just to make things complicated) I have to maintain an old legacy system here, which uses the dropins mechanism for installing plugins, not the p2 API. Actually, the whole CDT is installed in a dropins subdir. I can't remove the original plugin jar, as that would break the running Eclipse instance for those in the team who are currently working with the IDE. There is no way to tell all of them to shut down Eclipse, so I have to install an updated jar in parallel. That works fine with my own plugin, I simply increase the version number and add the new jar to the dropins folder. On the next Eclipse start, the new version is used. Only with CDT this approach does not work. -Achim Marc Khouzam wrote on 2011-05-27 11:49:I recently learned about a "Feature Patch" project from the forums http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=543780&S=23e8b33da3 e33c6c5a38cbaac3d95888 That allowed me to update an existing eclipse install with a small patch. Marc ________________________________________ From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Achim Bursian [abu.aud@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: May 27, 2011 4:29 AM To: CDT Dev Mailinglist Subject: [cdt-dev] Update CDT installation after small patch - how? Hi everybody, maybe this is a very dumb question, but: I currently have the need to patch the org.eclipse.cdt.ui plugin (only one line added), and deploy that patched jar file to a shared installation which is used by more than 100 developers. If I do not change anything in the plugin.xml, that works fine, and my patch is active if I replace the original file. But I would like to change the build date in the version string. If I touch the version string (if that matters, this is still 5.1.1.200909110608, and I changed it to 5.1.1.201105261000) the build process still runs fine, but the plugin does not get loaded during Eclipse startup. Don't know why. I already learned that the setup for a complete CDT build is far from trivial, but that's not what I need. Is there any way to simply change the version string and have the plugin being picked up? That way, I could deploy it to the dropins area, which would make the handling much easier. Thanks for help Achim _______________________________________________ cdt-dev mailing list cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cdt-dev _______________________________________________ cdt-dev mailing list cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cdt-dev_______________________________________________ cdt-dev mailing list cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cdt-dev _______________________________________________ cdt-dev mailing list cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cdt-dev |