Eclipse 3.4.0 (Ganymede)
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I just installed Eclipse 3.4.0 on Vista and had an interesting experience.
After installing it (by simply unzipping the archive in my Program Files folder), everything seemed to work o.k.; I installed java3d plugin and the core plugin, they showed up in "Help->About".
Then I installed svn (subversion) plugin and checked out 'demoapp' project. To mu surprise, it could not compile.
The reason was, Vista didn't allow Eclipse to write to Program Files folder so eclipse defaulted to creating a 'plugins' directory under Users/<username>/.eclipse directory. This is fine except it seems Eclipse has a bug: I could not list newly installed plugins as 'demoapp' dependencies!
It confused me a bit - the plugins appeared to be there, but I couldn't see them under eclipse/plugins directory.
The solution was to move whole eclipse install directory out of "Program Files", install plugins again (now they went to the expected location) and after that all worked fine.
When I run demoapp, I noticed another interesting difference:
Toolbar buttons for property page view now show up even though the toolbar was not setup. Even worse, they show up in the same view where TreeViewer is, covering the root of the tree node. Very annoying.
This is either incompatibility or a bug in 3.4.0 RCP platform.