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Eclipse on Athena updated to 3.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Aug 19 16:18:32 2004
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:18:09 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've updated Eclipse on Athena to 3.0 for Sun and Linux. Eclipse is a highly
configurable software development environment primarily focused on Java.
From my notice to users:
Eclipse on Athena has been updated to release 3.0.0 and has been made the
default.
To run release 2.1.1 now, type:
add eclipse-sdk
eclipse -ver 2.1.1
We have moved to a somewhat different system for setting up workspaces in this
release. Please read file /mit/eclipse-sdk_v3.0.0/README.athena in the
eclipse-sdk_v3.0.0 locker for important information about this. We've also
added a few extra plugins- see README.athena for details.
IMPORTANT: read the file above before running File -> Switch Workplace.
Importing projects created on 2.1.1 might be tricky- it would be best to
copy them into a new workspace for Eclipse 3.0.0, then to use them in
3.0.0 from there.
Once project files have been run on Eclipse 3.0.0, it will generally
not be possible to run them on 2.1.1 any more- if you have projects in
your default workspace that you want to keep running on Eclipse 2.1.1,
quit from Eclipse 3.0.0, the new default, before modifying them, and
save them in a separate workspace where you can run them under 2.1.1.
As before, the Java version used depends on the "current" link
in the java locker. We expect to update Java shortly to the latest
stable release.
Alex
