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About updater/plugin mechanism in eclipse I just want to point out that is actually being fixed/improved greatly in upcoming Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler). Eclipse upda

About updater/plugin mechanism in eclipse I just want to point out that is actually being fixed/improved greatly in upcoming Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler). Eclipse update mechanism (called p2) actually at is core is very powerful and can actually find out/remedy the installation/update but it was just never exposed in the UI used by Eclipse IDE's. Simply explained before Kepler p2 would just try and do exactly what you told it to "install these 2 plugins" and if its dependencies somehow conflicted it would give up ("could not complete operation"). In Kepler if this situation occurs p2 will try remedy the situation and try find out which plugins would need to be updated or maybe even downgraded to make it possible for you to install your plugins. Thus we are some that actually care and do what we can to improve it - this feature got in with help from @prapicault And for full disclosure i'm @maxandersen from the conversation OP linked to and lead of JBoss Developer Studio.

davedx 13y ago
Fantastic news. Thanks for the information.
smrtinsert 13y ago
Kepler is also on track to fix the rest of the 4x perf bugs right? I dled M7 yesterday and noticed it still flashes full screen on Win764 when I move view groups around in a perspective. I still love eclipse. I'm not ashamed to admit it. I've helped people sell businesses and go public with this damn platform creating millions in revenue along the way. When it's powering my livelihood and my employers happiness, I feel like something went right somewhere. It's a shame the UX in 4.2 has been such a thing to focus on.
mindcrime 13y ago
That's great news, thanks for sharing! The plugin situation has honestly been one of my biggest gripes with Eclipse for some time. Once I get to a reasonably stable configuration that more or less works, I'm always very reluctant to change anything else, for fear of hosing my entire install and having to start over from scratch. That really detracts from the overall experience. :-)
alyandon 13y ago
That's certainly welcome news. Are there going to be any improvements to the performance of the incremental search when "All Available Sites" is selected? There is simply no reason why Eclipse should take 30+ seconds at 100% cpu on a i7-2600K to return a list of packages that match a substring.

davedx 13y ago

Fantastic news. Thanks for the information.

smrtinsert 13y ago

Kepler is also on track to fix the rest of the 4x perf bugs right? I dled M7 yesterday and noticed it still flashes full screen on Win764 when I move view groups around in a perspective. I still love eclipse. I'm not ashamed to admit it. I've helped people sell businesses and go public with this damn platform creating millions in revenue along the way. When it's powering my livelihood and my employers happiness, I feel like something went right somewhere. It's a shame the UX in 4.2 has been such a thing to focus on.

mindcrime 13y ago

That's great news, thanks for sharing! The plugin situation has honestly been one of my biggest gripes with Eclipse for some time. Once I get to a reasonably stable configuration that more or less works, I'm always very reluctant to change anything else, for fear of hosing my entire install and having to start over from scratch. That really detracts from the overall experience. :-)

alyandon 13y ago

That's certainly welcome news. Are there going to be any improvements to the performance of the incremental search when "All Available Sites" is selected? There is simply no reason why Eclipse should take 30+ seconds at 100% cpu on a i7-2600K to return a list of packages that match a substring.