[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: How to keep an all-in-one up to date?

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Nick Boldt napsal(a):
> You have a few options.
> 
> a) Each time a new, updated all-in-one is made available, download it,
> unpack it, and point it at your existing workspace. Simple,
> self-contained, and no updating required. (Note that anything else
> you've installed into your Eclipse, like for debugging or other
> scripting support, will need to be reinstalled.)
> 
> b) From an existing installed all-in-one, load up the update site you
> like best (interim, milestones, or releases -- see
> http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/updates/ for the list) and install updates
> into your existing Eclipse. Restart when prompted.
> 
> c) Download a new, updated Update site zip. Unpack it. From an existing
> installed all-in-one, use the Install Manager to install the new plugins
> from the unpacked local update site. Restart when prompted.
> 
> d) Download a new, updated SDK or runtime zip. Unpack it into your
> existing Eclipse's dropins folder, eg., ~/eclipse/dropins/. Restart
> eclipse with the -clean flag, and be prepared to wait a bit as it finds
> the new dropins and loads them. (The purists might say that you should
> remove the old stuff in dropins/eclipse/plugins/*pdt* and
> dropins/eclipse/features/*pdt*, but you don't strictly have to.)
> 
> Bear in mind that you cannot update from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0, but you can
> move from 2.0.0 to 2.0.x. This is because 2.1.0 requires Eclipse 3.5,
> whereas 2.0.x require Eclipse 3.4. If you're simply replacing one
> all-in-one with another (option (a)) then you can move from 2.0 to 2.1
> because the all-in-ones also include the correct version of Eclipse.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Nick
> 

You wrote it very good, could you copy&paste to the PDT's wiki ? I think that is good
source of the informations how to update PDT and what is most important is that you
described all possibilies how to update ;)

thank you