Re: [Subclipse-users] Uninstall of Subclipse leaves plugins behind

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.
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> Mark
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> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Chris Lott <tigris_at_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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> Mark Phippard
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Received on 2010-01-12 17:14:49 CET