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2008-08-21
2013-05-20
  • Sebastian Weber

    Sebastian Weber - 2008-08-21

    Hi,

    I am using Eclipse 3.4 and I would like to use the Dropins directory to install the plugin.
    Using the following directory structure wasn't successful yet: dropins/epic/eclipse/
    The contents of the directory "org.epic.updatesite" from the zip-file was in the directory mentioned above. That means "features" and "plugins" was directly under dropins/epic/eclipse/

    With Eclipse 3.3 I used a seperate plugin directory as well. I pointed to the directory using text-files in the "eclipse/links" directory which has been scanned by Eclipse automatically.

    For convenience it would be nice to be able to use the dropins directory as well. Does anyone know how it works with epic?!

    Thx!
    CU Sebastian!

     
    • Jan Ploski

      Jan Ploski - 2008-08-21

      I just checked that the directory structure you described works.

      What doesn't work is simply copying the 'plugins' and 'features' from the update site zip there. You should install once using the update manager and then you can move plugins/org.epic.* and features/org.epic.* to the respective directories under dropins/epic/eclipse. You will notice that plugins/org.epic.* aren't exactly the JARs from the update site zip.

       

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