[news.eclipse.webtools] Re: [ANN] WTP 3.0.2 is available!

[John J Barton <johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Williams wrote:
> We've released WTP 3.0.2, along with many other projects for the 
> Ganymede Simultaneous Service Release, SR1.
>
> If you already have WTP installed, you should just be able to "update" 
> and get the updates.
>
> That worked well for me, on one of my system, but on another -- where 
> I'd "pieced together" many interim versions of WTP (using unzip), it did 
> not work -- I think because P2 updater is very strict about making sure 
> feature and plugins all match up correctly.
>
> If you do have trouble, feel free to open a bug, though probably not 
> much we could do, if it's just a mis-matched set of features and 
> plugins. But, I'd be interested in hearing of successes and failures.

I tried to update my eclipse 3.4 + wtp 3.0.1. Complete failure. Got 20 
pages of unhelpful error messages.


> Naturally, you can "start fresh" by installing the JEE IDE from the main 
> Eclipse downloads site:
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

hmm....your confidence in update seems to be borne out by the facts. But 
every time I reinstall its a long process because the downloads does not 
provide WTP + source.

jjb