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Bug 338356

Summary: Offer to update across major releases
Product: Community Reporter: Albert Zeyer <albzey+eclipsebugs>
Component: Cross-ProjectAssignee: Cross-Project issues <cross-project.inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert, john.arthorne, KetanPadegaonkar, remy.suen
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)   
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Description Albert Zeyer CLA 2011-02-27 15:43:45 EST 
I think this is a duplicate of bug #338332. I'm not sure I understand correctly why I had to open another bug report for this.

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I was clicking 'Help / Check for updates' and was expecting that Eclipse checks
for updates for itself. But it did not. It searched for updates for installed
plugins only.

I think this should be made more clear.

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I mean that "Check for updates" suggests that it checks for updates for
Eclipse.

But it does not. That is what I am saying with this bug report.

Today was the first time I was in #eclipse IRC and from the 3 questions or so
which appeared in the time I was there, one of it was exactly also about this
(the user asked why "Check for updates" didn't found the Eclipse update to
3.6.2).

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Or maybe "not intuitive" would be better.

How should I know that I have to add a repository to update Eclipse?

And how should I know which one?

And how should I know that there is an update?

So it all means that I have to manually check the website for major updates.
And the function "Check for updates" in Eclipse cannot do that.

And that is confusing.
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2011-02-28 03:40:40 EST 
Just saw bug 338332 comment 4 - moving back.
Comment 2 John Arthorne CLA 2011-02-28 11:50:57 EST 
To be clear, this bug is about updating across major releases (3.5.x to 3.6.x). Today this requires the user to enter the URL of the 3.6 release repository before they can upgrade. 

If we decide to support this, the galileo repository could have a repository reference to the helios release repository added (for example).
Comment 3 John Arthorne CLA 2011-02-28 11:52:39 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 303583 ***