ivanoe - 2009-03-02

On the Installation page [http://pydev.sourceforge.net/download.html] there is an alternative way to install PyDev:
"""
An alternative is just getting the zip file and extracting it yourself in eclipse. If you choose to do it, just make sure the plugins folder is extracted on top of the eclipse plugins folder and restart with '-clean'.
"""

This is actually a preffered way to install for many people where just xcopy of the environment is made.

Since 1.4.4 the packaging is different, and all features/plugins are delivered in .JAR files.

Issue-1: As far as I know those in FEATURES folder must be extracted in order to work properly in Eclipse, otherwise the plugin is not loaded.
Issue-2: Files artifacts.jar, content.jar, site.xml will end up in the "eclipse" folder
from both pydev and pydev extensions, and this again is not the way for "portable" installation of pydev.

Please advise.

Thanks, ivanoe