Re: Plugin Compatibility

Hi All,

Thanks as usual for your posts.
@Buck - no, nothing in the logs but based on David's comment I guess I made
an incorrect assumption about how plugins are meant to work.

@David - Thanks David, I'll do some more investigation then, it seemed
quite reasonable to me that having done the work and used an export wizard
to build a jar file to work as a plugin that loading it in the plugin
directory would be exactly the correct thing to do. I figured that
something in the plugin.xml or manifest would provide enough information
for Eclipse to decide if it wanted to load it or not.

I'll read up a bit more.
thanks kindly,
Craig

On 19 August 2016 at 17:20, <dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David L Clark/it/crp/WinWholesale wrote on 08/19/2016 12:04:14 PM:

"WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08/19/2016 11:50:22

AM:

The only steps I took to do this were to closedown Eclipse on their
machine, copy the jar file to the plugin directory and then restart

Eclipse.

As it's not showing at all on their configuration plugin tab...

Just guessing (as I have not done it before), but I would think you
would have to do more to "install" an Eclipse plugin that simply
copy the JAR file to the plugin directory. I would think it would
have to at least also be "registered" somehow to Eclipse.

In fact, I found the following comment on the Internet.

Never, never, never... install anything directly in plugins/ It will not
be picked up by Eclipse automatically and - even more importantly - all
the usual update functionality does not work for these "dropped" plug-ins.
If you absolutely must add anything "by hand" do it in dropins/... – Tonny
Madsen

I found other comments that said you need to export from one
machine and then import on the other machine.

Sincerely,

Dave Clark
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