[news.eclipse.platform] Re: 3.4 updating of manual plugins

[ekke <ekkehard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

andy,

this doesnt work anymore with P2 :-(

you can go back to classic UpdateManager

or

try to find a way with the new possibilities

I wrote my experiences into my blog:

http://ekkes-corner.blogspot.com/2008/06/eclipse-ganymede-p2-shared.html

ekke

andy dingfelder schrieb:
> I have multiple plug-ins that I have put in a common area outside 
> eclipse, so that I can share my plug-ins via links between multiple 
> installs and also can disable the easier
>
> CDT
> GEF
> InstantiationsGUIBuilder
> jautodoc
> maven
> PDT
> pydev
> QuantumDB
> subclipse
> WST
>
> In 3.3 these were "extension points" and the update process would 
> correctly put new updates into their correct external location
>
> with 3.4, the update process ignored my custom locations and threw 
> everything into the eclipse plugins and features folders.
>
> yuck!