I don't know if this is the right forum for this, but here goes...
I'm currently on the old Kepler version of Eclipse. This is due to supporting several projects that use the Jigloo swing design tool. Jigloo was incompatible with subsequent releases of Eclipse and the company making Jigloo went out of business. At this point I'm not going to port those projects to a different swing design tool. Kepler + patch was at least able to run Java 8.
In the mean time I want to move ahead with Java 9 development on more recent projects and Kepler doesn't support that, meaning, I should upgrade to the latest version of Eclipse.
Other than Jigloo, the other plugins I use are: Subclipse (Subversion), and Maven.
So, what is the best way to go back and forth between two versions of Eclipse? Kepler configured for Java 8 and the newest one configured for Java 9.
Would I end up needing separate Subversion repositories?
Could I open up some of my Java 8 (non-Jigloo) projects in both versions of Eclipse (but not at the same time)? Or will the .settings stuff get stomped on by the newer version?
Would it even be possibile to run both Eclipse versions simultaneously?
That's all the questions I could come up with. Any other questions I should be asking?
Thanks.
I'm currently on the old Kepler version of Eclipse. This is due to supporting several projects that use the Jigloo swing design tool. Jigloo was incompatible with subsequent releases of Eclipse and the company making Jigloo went out of business. At this point I'm not going to port those projects to a different swing design tool. Kepler + patch was at least able to run Java 8.
In the mean time I want to move ahead with Java 9 development on more recent projects and Kepler doesn't support that, meaning, I should upgrade to the latest version of Eclipse.
Other than Jigloo, the other plugins I use are: Subclipse (Subversion), and Maven.
So, what is the best way to go back and forth between two versions of Eclipse? Kepler configured for Java 8 and the newest one configured for Java 9.
Would I end up needing separate Subversion repositories?
Could I open up some of my Java 8 (non-Jigloo) projects in both versions of Eclipse (but not at the same time)? Or will the .settings stuff get stomped on by the newer version?
Would it even be possibile to run both Eclipse versions simultaneously?
That's all the questions I could come up with. Any other questions I should be asking?
Thanks.