[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: Question about using the internal debugger

[Richard Geddes <rich.geddes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

b) I've been using the onboard update tool... shouldn't that get me to 
the latest versions?

Yes this procedure did work for me... I was able to complete the PDT 
Basic Tutorial debugger section.

Comments:
a) It looks to me like this code is not used too frequently... therefore 
the issues with installing it.  Because it's used in the tutorial (ie 
people are learning) I would say most people will probably lose interest 
in PDT, as there is a plethora of other tools available, assuming the 
tutorial is an entry point into PDT adoption.

b) While doing any eclipse tutorial from the Help section within 
eclipse, when asked to activate a dialog, the scrolling and other 
actions are disabled on the help window.  So eg, while following along a 
tutorial, the directions say "open this dialog and enter some stuff from 
a few steps before in the tutorial"... oops, can't scroll back to that 
spot if it's out of view.. cancel the dialog... go back... copy... 
restart the dialog... paste.


Thanks for your help
R

Nick Boldt wrote:
> > b) WTP     1.1.10x
>
> I hope you mean 2.0 -- 
> http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/downloads/release.php?release=R20080103 
>
>
> > Update operation has failed
> >   Error retrieving 
> > "plugins/org.zend.php.debug.debugger.linux.x86_64_0.0.0.jar". [Server 
> > returned HTTP response code: "404 Not Found" for URL: 
> > http://downloads.zend.com/pdt/plugins/org.zend.php.debug.debugger.linux.x86_64_0.0.0.jar.] 
>
>
> Sounds like there's something wrong with the Zend update site. Here's 
> the manual install hack:
>
> 0. shut down Eclipse
>
> 1. download these
>
> http://downloads.zend.com/pdt/plugins/org.zend.php.debug.debugger_5.2.10.v20070905.jar 
>
> http://downloads.zend.com/pdt/plugins/org.zend.php.debug.debugger.linux.x86_64_5.2.10.v20070905.jar 
>
> http://downloads.zend.com/pdt/features/org.zend.php.debug_feature_5.2.10.v20070905.jar 
>
>
> 2. put the feature jar in features/ and the plugin jars in plugins/
>
> 3. unpack them all into like-named folders
>
> eclipse/plugins/org.zend.php.debug.debugger_5.2.10.v20070905/
> eclipse/plugins/org.zend.php.debug.debugger.linux.x86_64_5.2.10.v20070905/
> eclipse/features/org.zend.php.debug_feature_5.2.10.v20070905/
>
> 4. restart Eclipse
>
> Does that work? (FWIW, all the php I do is for the web, so I just use 
> apache for debugging. print and print_r() FTW.)
>
> Nick