Re: [ptp-dev] Experiences installing PTP

[Beth Tibbitts <tibbitts@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Howard,
Thanks for the remarks.

Looks like the only PTP issues were in the prerequisites that you didn't have.
And, you probably didn't need those features.
Assuming that the pre-reqs that were missing were RSE and some photran-specific things for the PTP Performance framework plug-ins, you can just uncheck those.
If you install the Remote Tools that are part of PTP, you don't need RSE for the PTP basics of connecting to remote machines.
Only if you want some additional non-PTP features of RSE do you need RSE. That is, Remote Tools and RSE can substitute for each other in the basic PTP remote features.
You *do* need CDT 4.0.3 as a prerequisite, which it should tell you.

Basically the short story on installing the PTP features: uncheck the features with the red "X" indicating you don't have their pre-reqs, assuming it's RSE & Photran stuff.
The release notes contain a section on PTP installation with some examples of combinations of features you might want to install:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/PTP/release_notes/2.0#Install_PTP_on_local_machine

On the PTP call we were discussing another workaround: If you have an old version of PTP installed, and you install a newer one on top of it,
in order to build the proxy you need to go into your eclipse/plugins directory and delete the old PTP plugin directories first.
Otherwise I believe the proxy build complains about not finding the utils directory.


...Beth

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Subject	[photran-dev] Experiences installing PTP

As I mentioned in the call yesterday, I'm installing the latest PTP into 
my eclipse on Leopard. It seemed that there was some interest in my 
experiences, so here is the summary.

The original problem I was having was that I could not update photran, 
which stopped all upgrade attempts.  That was fairly easy to fix, though 
I am still confused by what happened: it turns out I didn't have CDT 
installed, once I installed CDT eclipse let me upgrade all my installed 
plugins. Of course, that is confusing because I though that CDT was a 
requirement for photran, so I don't know how I could have ever had 
photran installed under these conditions.  Sorry for the cross-posting, 
but I thought the photran folks might be interested in this.

Back to the ptp install: It turns out that this particular eclipse 
instance doesn't have PTP.  No problem, as I had previously downloaded 
ptp-updatesite-2.0.1.200804292220.zip. I added this file as a "New 
Archived Site" and tried to install from it.  However I got the 
following error

"PTP RSE Enabler (2.0.0.200804292220) requires plug-in 
"org.eclipse.rse.core"

so I went back to "Search for new features to install" and looked 
through the available list until I found "Remote Access and Device 
Development", which I guessed was the package that contains 
org.eclipse.rse.core.  Turns out I was right and I then got to install 
PTP. Is there a way to encode this dependency in the PTP package, so 
this doesn't happen to anyone else?

Also, eclipse seems to think that the PTP package is unsigned and gave 
me a warning.  I trust you guys :) but would it be possible to fix that 
issue as well?

Anyway, I now have the PTP Debug and PTP Runtime perspectives in my 
"Open Perspective" list, so I'd say it was a successful install, with a 
couple of minor issues.

Howard
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