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How do I manually drop plugins into an eclipse install in 3.5M7? [message #335963]

Mon, 11 May 2009 14:21

Eclipse User

I first tried dropping the plugin jar into the plugins directory. That
didn't work. Then I tried dropping it into the dropins directory in all
three supposedly supported formats (1 - directly under dropins; 2 - under
dropins/eclipse/plugins, 3 - under
dropins/<nameOfMyChoice>/eclipse/plugins). Nothing worked.

I guess using the Equinox p2 UI would solve my problem. But from the
documentation, it sounds like this is an entirely separate application that
I'd have to install. That's a lot of overhead to drop a single plugin into
my environment.

Thanks,
Matt

Re: How do I manually drop plugins into an eclipse install in 3.5M7? [message #335965 is a reply to message #335963]

Mon, 11 May 2009 19:29

Eclipse User

Sither wrote:
> I first tried dropping the plugin jar into the plugins directory. That
> didn't work. Then I tried dropping it into the dropins directory in all
> three supposedly supported formats (1 - directly under dropins; 2 -
> under dropins/eclipse/plugins, 3 - under
> dropins/<nameOfMyChoice>/eclipse/plugins). Nothing worked.
>
> I guess using the Equinox p2 UI would solve my problem. But from the
> documentation, it sounds like this is an entirely separate application
> that I'd have to install. That's a lot of overhead to drop a single
> plugin into my environment.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
Putting the plugin in the dropins folder should work. Have you
restarted your Eclipse install after dropping the plugin into the
dropins folder?

Have you checked to log file to see if there is a problem resolving the
plugins you are trying to dropin.

Re: How do I manually drop plugins into an eclipse install in 3.5M7? [message #335979 is a reply to message #335965]

Tue, 12 May 2009 11:21

Eclipse User

"David Wegener" <dpwegener@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:guacde$kal$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Sither wrote:
>> I first tried dropping the plugin jar into the plugins directory. That
>> didn't work. Then I tried dropping it into the dropins directory in all
>> three supposedly supported formats (1 - directly under dropins; 2 - under
>> dropins/eclipse/plugins, 3 - under
>> dropins/<nameOfMyChoice>/eclipse/plugins). Nothing worked.
>>
>> I guess using the Equinox p2 UI would solve my problem. But from the
>> documentation, it sounds like this is an entirely separate application
>> that I'd have to install. That's a lot of overhead to drop a single
>> plugin into my environment.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt

> Putting the plugin in the dropins folder should work. Have you restarted
> your Eclipse install after dropping the plugin into the dropins folder?
Yes.

> Have you checked to log file to see if there is a problem resolving the
> plugins you are trying to dropin.
There was no mention of the problem in the log.

Re: How do I manually drop plugins into an eclipse install in 3.5M7? [message #335992 is a reply to message #335979]

Tue, 12 May 2009 23:37

Eclipse User

I have found that I generally need to restart Eclipse with the -clean option
before the plug-ins are properly recognized in the dropins directory.

Namaste, Bruce

Re: How do I manually drop plugins into an eclipse install in 3.5M7? [message #336009 is a reply to message #335992]

Wed, 13 May 2009 11:33

Eclipse User

Thanks Bruce! Restarting with the -clean option worked.

"Bruce Kelly" <Bruce.Kelly@andrew.com> wrote in message
news:gudf9c$rpu$1@build.eclipse.org...
>I have found that I generally need to restart Eclipse with the -clean
>option before the plug-ins are properly recognized in the dropins
>directory.
>
> Namaste, Bruce
>

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