[news.eclipse.tools] Re: No update available in 20011107 build

["Darin Swanson" <Darin_Swanson@xxxxxxx>]

To update individual JDT plugins from a CVS repository...
For example the debugger plugin org.eclipse.debug.core
    catchup with the latest code from the dev.eclipse.org repository
    build
    run Ant on the exportplugin.xml in the scripts sub-directory of the
plugin (leave with the
    default settings to export)

In the Ant console, all the gory details of the export will be output.  The
plugin is exported
to ..\plugin-export directory (exact location available in the Ant console).
Shutdown Eclipse, replace that plugin in the plugin directory of your
Eclipse install.
Now when you run Eclipse, you will be updated to the latest for that plugin.

Of course these plugins have interdependencies, so you usually have to
update in groups.
We update our host plugins every morning using this routine.  Therefore we
are always working and enjoying/suffering through the latest feature/bug ;-)

Hope this helps

Darins

"Jon Mountjoy" <jondean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9ukquc$8mr$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Jean Couillaud wrote:
>
> > Hi Jon,
>
> > AFAIK, there's no update server for now.
> > So even if the plugin was active you woudlnt be able to use it.
>
> That'll explain it then thank you.
> The documentation is preempting reality :-)
>
> I was hoping that there was an update server so that I could update
> various modules etc.  It isn't (yet) clear to me how to update the IDE
> using the IDE - so for instance I attached to the CVS server, got down a
> few modules (todo with update.core update.ui etc.), compiled them up, and
> then asked myself: what do I do with these jars..
>
> Regards,
> Jon
>
>