Re: Plugin Compatibility

@Matt I've only amended the plugin about half a dozen times so far but I
exit Eclipse, remove the old jar file and paste in the new and restart.
Since this always worked so well for my and my plugins were simple ones I
figured it would work just the same on my colleague's machines!

I might give the dropins directory a go out of curiosity to see how that
works. I have a couple of guinea pig er colleagues I can use...

On 19 August 2016 at 17:32, Tyler, Matt <matt.tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For my own plugins I do nothing more than load the latest version into the
base eclipse plugin folder not the dropins. I think the dropins is for
more robust plugins without an install feature.

I have to restart RDi every time I want to use my new plugin version but
this is required for all installed plugins.

Since I don’t write an update feature to my plugins I am not that
concerned that the update tools won't work.

I have found that sometimes the wrong version is used and I have had to
update the LPEX version on the project to fit the version I am running.
When things don’t seem to work I make certain all versions of my plugin
are removed from RDi plugins folder then copy in the latest version. You
can see what version of your plugin you are running in the Help -> About ->
Installation Details -> Plugins tab. Make certain that version is the one
you want running.

Thanks, Matt


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To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Plugin Compatibility

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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