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Re: [eclipse-dev] comment on draft 3.0 plan - need better upgrade options

IMO, Eclipse needs a better upgrade option. As it stands, there is no way to upgrade a currently installed Eclipse environment from one release to another (e.g. I have 2.0 installed but want to move to 2.1).

The Eclipse configuration Properties can be imported and exported, but not all of the configuration settings get saved (like templates and custom plugin configuration). And you still have to manually import all of your projects; history gets lost, etc. etc.

Has anyone considered addressing this?

Faced with the same issue ourselves, we addressed it to a certain extent with our commercial Eclipse add-on, CodePro.

        http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws/docs/

Take a look at the enhanced preference export/import facility that comes with the product...

        http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws/docs/features/prefs/export_prefs.html
        http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws/docs/features/prefs/import_prefs.html

Key advantages relative to the preference import/export mechanism in base Eclipse are:

o Much better control over the granularity of exported preferences. This makes it easy, for example, to share just your code formatter preferences with other team members without forcing them to take the rest of your preferences as well.

o Better handling of many preferences like classpath variables. The Eclipse preference exporter exports classpath variables using hard coded paths which makes them pretty useless when imported into another workspace or on another machine. The CodePro preference exporter will export them in a workspace-relative format that makes them useable in multiple workspaces and on multiple developer machines.

o Support for many non-standard preference settings like templates and working sets. These are stored as XML files in your workspace metadata directory and are not visible to the Eclipse preference exporter.

Note that the preference import/export tool is part of every member of the CodePro family including our inexpensive Eclipse & WAS/Express-only product, CodePro Express.

        http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/express/
        http://www.instantiations.com/expressdocs.htm

Regards,

-Eric Clayberg
 Sr. Vice President of Product Development
 Instantiations, Inc.
 503-598-4900 Sales
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 http://www.instantiations.com

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