[news.eclipse.tools] Re: How to upgrade

[Andreas Guther <andreas@xxxxxxxxx>]

I also wonder what the best way is to upgrade.  Since M3 I started to 
unzip all files over the previous installation and for M3 and now M4 
this seems to work.

The advantage so far to my delight is, that I can start the new 
installation and all the configuration is available.  So far, so good.

But I wonder if this is a recommended way on the long run or if it is 
better to have a clean new install and then copy the needed files of 
configuration and plug-ins to the new directory.  All this in order to 
avoid having maybe files from an old installation together with a new 
release.

However, I think it might be helpful to have a third party plug-in 
directory that can be specified in a set-up and just point a new 
installation to the 3rd party plug-in directory, that might be outside 
the eclipse tree.

In addition it might be helpful to configure the path to the workbench 
rather than have it pre-defined under the eclipse tree, at least under 
Windows.

Andreas



Hao Wu wrote:
> M4 has just came out. I'd like to ask a question that should have been
> asked long before. What's the best way to upgrade Eclipse?
>
> What I currently do is to use "external" workspace, outside of <eclipse
> install dir>, say C:\eclipse. And when I want to install new release,
> remove the old (C:\eclipse) and unzip the new (into C:\eclipse). But this
> still requires installation of the plugins.
>
> Is there a better way?