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Mon, 28 November 2005 14:29

Eclipse User

We have 3 plugins created in Eclipse 3.0. Each have the plugin.xml file.
My questions are:

1. How can i easily migrate to 3.1? Convert the plugin.xml to Manifest.MF
and any other necessary changes?

2. When i currently deploy my plugins, i provide a .zip archive with all 3
plugins. However, the directory structure in the archive created is
plugins/my_plugin1 instead of eclipse/plugins/my_plugin1 (as is the case
with the plugins available at eclipse.org). Why is that? It is annoying
because i have to tell the users explicity to unzip the archive to
eclipse/. When i migrate to 3.1 successfully, will this problem also be
solved?

3. Is there an article/document that explains the whole plugin deployment
process?

thanks in advance,
Sapna

Re: Migration Question [message #295356 is a reply to message #295350]

Mon, 28 November 2005 16:03

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: sunil_kamath.nohotspammail.com

Sapna George <sgeorge@vt.edu> wrote:
> We have 3 plugins created in Eclipse 3.0. Each have the plugin.xml
> file. My questions are:
>
> 1. How can i easily migrate to 3.1? Convert the plugin.xml to
> Manifest.MF and any other necessary changes?
>

Read the migration guide. First read the 2.1 -> 3.0 migration guide and then
3.0->3.1 migration guide.
http://help.eclipse.org/help31/topic/org.eclipse.platform.do c.isv/porting/eclipse_3_0_porting_guide.html
http://help.eclipse.org/help31/topic/org.eclipse.platform.do c.isv/porting/eclipse_3_1_porting_guide.html

> 2. When i currently deploy my plugins, i provide a .zip archive with
> all 3 plugins. However, the directory structure in the archive
> created is plugins/my_plugin1 instead of eclipse/plugins/my_plugin1
> (as is the case with the plugins available at eclipse.org). Why is
> that? It is annoying because i have to tell the users explicity to
> unzip the archive to eclipse/. When i migrate to 3.1 successfully,
> will this problem also be solved?
>

It isn't a problem.
plugins/my_plugin1 is the correct structure.
There is no requirement or restriction that Eclipse be installed in a
directory named eclipse.

> 3. Is there an article/document that explains the whole plugin
> deployment process?
>
Yes. It's called the PDE guide.

--
Sunil

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