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List:       subclipse-users
Subject:    Re: [Subclipse-users] Uninstall of Subclipse leaves plugins  behind
From:       Chris Lott <tigris () chris-lott ! org>
Date:       2010-01-12 16:14:44
Message-ID: 29596829.8207.1263312884827.JavaMail.httpd () localhost
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It's probably no consolation that some web searching says the following. First, \
Eclipse 3.5 completely rewrote the install/uninstall feature, and second, other \
plugin providers seem to have similar problems with their files not being completely \
removed by an uninstall.  I wonder if Eclipse somehow feels that the tigris.org jar \
files are satisfying some dependency, and refuses to remove them for that reason?  I \
sure hope there's no circular dependency.  

I found this discussion, altho it seems related to Pulse:

http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2-printview-t-23960-start-0.html



> While it is possible to run code during an install, I do not think
> many Eclipse plug-ins do it, and Subclipse does not do it.  We have
> features on an update site.  The features are basically just an XML
> file that declare the plugins that the feature contains and what
> plugins are required to be already be installed.  The Eclipse code
> does the rest.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Chris Lott <tigris@chris-lott.org> wrote:
> > Thanks for the very fast reply.  Install and uninstall work fine on many plugins \
> > so I am a bit skeptical of looking to the Eclipse platform immediately for relief \
> > here.  I suspect that the uninstall action is completely determined by the \
> > actions of the install action.  I think it would be worth checking the Subclipse \
> > install configuration to make sure that it's dotting all the Is and crossing all \
> > the Ts so the platform knows to do the right thing on removal. However the last \
> > time I wrote an eclipse install procedure I was working in version 2.  I don't \
> > know what all has changed for 3.5, so I don't have anything to offer right now. 
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> -- 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/

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