What's the best way to get Eclipse users to regularly update a plugin?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/207407

  •  03-07-2019
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Question

I'm going to be distributing a plugin that will be routinely updated with features, bug fixes, and updates to downloadable corpuses.

The usual update site mechanism can do the update ok - when the user asks it to.

The problem is that (unlike MS Office), the automatic updater preference is off by default and I don't want to change that default for my users or count on them changing it.

Can I write something that occasionally checks for updates? Or prompt the user regularly? What's bad form and what's acceptable ?

Was it helpful?

Solution

Eclipse 3.4 check automatically for plugin updates by default. You will see a popup window in the bottom right when an update is available.

To configure automatic updates, go to Window > Preferences > Install Updates > Automatic Updates

OTHER TIPS

The absolute sure fire way is to make sure that your updates are compelling. The user will do the rest

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