| How to remove outdated plugins ? [message #283081] |
Fri, 25 March 2005 11:19  |
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Originally posted by: michael.illgner.email.de
Hi folks,
After several sucessfull updates using the update manager, I have
noticed that my plugin directory contains several mostly outdated
versions of most plugins like org.eclipseplatform_3.0.0,
org.eclipseplatform_3.0.1 and org.eclipseplatform_3.0.2 etc.
Is there an offical way or even a gui to remove these old plugins, or do
I have to delete them by hand and hope not to delete the wrong one ?
Michael
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| Re: How to remove outdated plugins ? [message #283101 is a reply to message #283081] |
Sat, 26 March 2005 00:04  |
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Originally posted by: bob.objfac.com
I don't believe there's any assist with this. I recall it was discussed
while update was in the early stages, and some people strongly felt that
old versions should be left around so that users could revert to
previous versions. This also conflicts with the idea of network
installation, which IBMers seem to feel very strongly about. The old
versions may not be in a writeable location. (Actually, I don't know how
update works in such an environment.) Finally, deleting files is always
fraught with peril (though they could be moved out of Eclipse to a
backup folder).
Speaking personally, I have 20 GB of mostly useless crap floating around
on my D: drive; a few plugins more or less really don't bother me. But
then my plugins tend to be small. Once people start installing the stuff
migrating down from WSAD to Eclipse, they might see it as more of an issue.
Bob
Michael Illgner wrote:
> Hi folks,
> After several sucessfull updates using the update manager, I have
> noticed that my plugin directory contains several mostly outdated
> versions of most plugins like org.eclipseplatform_3.0.0,
> org.eclipseplatform_3.0.1 and org.eclipseplatform_3.0.2 etc.
> Is there an offical way or even a gui to remove these old plugins, or do
> I have to delete them by hand and hope not to delete the wrong one ?
>
> Michael
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| Re: How to remove outdated plugins ? [message #283117 is a reply to message #283107] |
Sat, 26 March 2005 13:58 |
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Originally posted by: bob.objfac.com
Michael Illgner wrote:
> Bob Foster wrote:
>> Speaking personally, I have 20 GB of mostly useless crap floating
>> around on my D: drive; a few plugins more or less really don't bother
>> me. But then my plugins tend to be small. Once people start installing
>> the stuff migrating down from WSAD to Eclipse, they might see it as
>> more of an issue.
>>
> I my opinion, the wasted space is not important, but since the
> plugin.xml's must be loaded and checked during startup, I would expect a
> sligthly better startup performance after removing old plugins.
Actually not. Unless you launch with -clean, only the plugin.xmls that
are part of the current configuration are checked, and I believe even
those are preprocessed into a format that is very fast to read all at
once. This was a performance enhancement done for 3.0.
Not that the enhancement made launch fast, but it did make -clean
really, really show. ;-}
Bob
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