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RE: [cdt-dev] CDT 7.0 M6 Candidate (was Error during nightly builds)
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The dropins folder works ok for me when I install plugins for the first time.
If you already have a CDT installation, I expect the dropins folder to break miserably,
if you dropin CDT plugins in there.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Korn
> Sent: March-15-10 3:58 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] CDT 7.0 M6 Candidate (was Error during
> nightly builds)
>
> On 15/03/2010 18:56, Doug Schaefer wrote:
>
> > I fear the drop-ins folder. The proper way to install anything into
> > Eclipse is to go through the UI.
>
> On 15/03/2010 19:57, John Cortell wrote:
> > Sorry. I thought you meant the plugins folder. Not sure if
> it works in
> > the dropin folder.
>
> Well, I can report that it certainly looks like it works; I
> simply unzip the
> M6 SDK, unzip the cdt-master-blablabla archive into the
> dropins folder (also same with the RSE plugin), and after
> launching eclipse I have all the CDT plugins registered and
> everything, at least as far as I've explored so far, "just works".
>
> The p2 documentation suggests that this is supposed to be
> supported and that it's meant to get everything right(*).
> I'm a noob round here - is there some undocumented knowledge
> floating around that there can be problems with the dropins folder?
>
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
> --
> (*) - http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started#Dropins
>
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