Thanks, Andy, for the correction!

In the "Installation Details" dialog launched from the About window, the
Subversive feature is shown nested under the Momentics IDE feature
(com.qnx.tools.ide.momentics.feature.group).  Looking further, I see
that it is also listed under that feature's parent item,
com.qnx.tools.ide.momentics.ide.  I guess this indicates that it was
installed after the fact by the P2 director.

Why does it appear in both places?

Thanks,

Christian


On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:20 -0500, Andy Jin wrote:

> The Momentics IDE feature does not include the Subversive feature.
> Subversive is added using P2 director similar to running the P2
> installer so it can be uninstalled.
> 
> The reason you see the "uninstall" button being disabled is because you
> are running your personal profile which is the default settings in IDE.
> If you re-direct your configuration area to the IDE installation
> location using this command line option:
> 
> <IDE_install_location>/qde -configuration
> <IDE_install_location>/configuration
> 
> you will see the "uninstall" button enabled. You have to be the owner of
> the <IDE_install_location>. After you finish the uninstall, run the IDE
> in normal way with "-clean" option to refresh your personal profile.
> 
> We have not tested the uninstall so (in the usual texts :-) it's not
> recommended.
> 
> Regards,
> Andy
> 
> -----Original Message-----


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Christian W. Damus
Software Developer, IDE Team
QNX Software Systems

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Jin [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:21 PM
> To: general-ide
> Subject: RE: IDE 4.7 minus subversion
> 
> The Momentics IDE feature does not include the Subversive feature.
> Subversive is added using P2 director similar to running the P2
> installer so it can be uninstalled.
> 
> The reason you see the "uninstall" button being disabled is because you
> are running your personal profile which is the default settings in IDE.
> If you re-direct your configuration area to the IDE installation
> location using this command line option:
> 
> <IDE_install_location>/qde -configuration
> <IDE_install_location>/configuration
> 
> you will see the "uninstall" button enabled. You have to be the owner
> of
> the <IDE_install_location>. After you finish the uninstall, run the IDE
> in normal way with "-clean" option to refresh your personal profile.
> 
> We have not tested the uninstall so (in the usual texts :-) it's not
> recommended.

It almost work, the problem is that after uninstalling subversive the IDE (4.7) was back using the old installer and 
subversive was still there.  I`ve try to reinstall everything but I`m running into problems, seems like I screwed my 
installation.  I was warned ;-)

That being said this whole install and uninstall of plug-ins in Eclipse is unbelievably crappy, for all the great 
designs and concept that when into the Eclipse concept, the whole concept of install/uninstall/update is a total failure
.  It`s the kind of thing that ruins all the time saving that a environment like that is supposed to save you compare to
 non IDE development.

I`m curious, say within a 1 year period how many time a typical developer will have to reinstall everything because 
their setup got screw up.
> 
> Regards,
> Andy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Damus [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:33 PM
> To: general-ide
> Subject: Re: IDE 4.7 minus subversion
> 
> Hi, Mario,
> 
> In the parlance of the Eclipse platform's provisioning system, the
> Momentics IDE feature includes the Subversive feature.  Consequently,
> uninstalling Subversive would invalidate the IDE installation, so the
> provisioning system does not permit that.  Hence the disabled button.
> 
> AFAIK, Subclipse and Subversive should be able to coexist.  They
> maintain separate repository metadata in the Eclipse Team framework and
> shouldn't interfere with one another.  That said, I have never tried it
> nor heard of any "success stories" in coexistence.  At least they do
> both use the SVNKit implementation  :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Christian
> 
> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 13:17 -0500, Mario Charest wrote:
> 
> > I need to install subclipse.  I'm a bit nervous at the idea of having
> both at the same time. I'm trying to uninstall subversive, but the
> uninstall button is disabled.  Any idea?
> >
> 
> 
> 
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