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I am on my 5th reinstall of Elcipse3.4 folks since yesterday. One of the problems seems to be how major Eclipse plug-ins by-passed normal Eclipse operation. Listen up, for all major plug-ins that require the -clean command in Eclipse 3.3 install as a drop-in. The regular Eclipse EquinoxP2 operation does not put update site to plug-ins as downloading to the dropins folder.
To migrate those plug-ins you will have to select a small group an drop in dropins folder and than boot up Eclipse 3.4 and repeat that process until you have all legacy plug-ins installed in the dropins folder. No, I have to figured out how to get Acceleo modules loaded yet, but do not install those modules via EquinoxP2(ie the non-dropins folder way) as you will end up with a non-update-able Eclipse install.
Sorry Eclipse team, it needs work and most of that work is from plug-in authors abusing the -clean command rather than doing it an approved Eclipse way and thus you can understand the frustration of Eclipse committers when users complain about this as it somewhat not their faults.
In fact I would suggest that you do a separate folder in dropins folder just for all plug-ins that use the -clean command so that you can migrate those plug-ins for use inn Eclipse 3.4.
However those early adopters taking the plunge now, the Ganymedede download links are here. The proper load/install sequence is:
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GMF
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I should have more about my plug-in migration steps this afternoon.
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