One of the biggest problems with Eclipse is that there is no clear upgrade path from major versions, for example 3.5->3.6. What I ended up having to do for years is back up the old release, download and unpack the new release, and then try to migrate all the settings by importing and exporting left and right. Not so pleasant.

Turns out, as of Eclipse 3.3 (though I've only tried it with Eclipse 3.5), it's possible to successfully complete an in-place upgrade without doing any wiping or voodoo hackery. I've successfully completed this on 2 of my machines and now need to share it with the rest of the world.

Step 1. Go to Help > Install New Software… > Available Software Sites or Windows > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites. I personally prefer the former way because it results in fewer clicks but both end up in the same place.

Step 2. Everywhere you see 3.5, press Edit and change it to 3.6. Similarly, change "galileo" to "helios". For example, you should end up with at least these (if you don't have these, just add them):

http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.6

http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios

Note: you may also need to update other repositories (for example, Galileo was compatible with CDT 6, while Helios needed CDT 7).

Step 3. Press OK, then go to Help > Check for Updates. You should see the progress in the Progress tab – let the magic happen, restart when prompted, and after a few minutes, you should have a working upgraded version of Eclipse.

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Note that this script is only compatible with the ANSI FTPRush version. The Unicode version is not supported.

You need to have Activestate Perl installed in order to run this script. http://www.google.com/search?q=activestate+perl+download

Script source is available from SVN here.

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#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# AUTHOR:   Artem Russakovskii
#
# URL:      http://beerpla.net
#
# DATE:     02/21/07
#
# ABSTRACT: Removes all ftprush queue items that don't download to localhost.
#           It is useful to run if you FXP a lot of files back and forth and want
#           to clean up the queues from time to time, but don't want to delete
#           anything that is downloading.
#           Feel free to make a shortcut to this script and run it any time you want.
#
#           Note that this script is only compatible with the ANSI FTPRush version.
#           The Unicode version is not supported.
#
#           You need to have Activestate Perl installed in order to run this script.
#           http://www.google.com/search?q=activestate+perl+download
 
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use File::Path;
use File::Find;
use Cwd;
 
my $ftprush_location = "C:\\Program Files\\FTPRush\\Queue"; # FTPRush queue location
 
sub return_file_list
{
  my @filelist;
  find(
    sub {
      if ( $File::Find::name =~ /rfq$/i )
      {
        push @filelist, $File::Find::name;
      }
    },
    $ftprush_location
  );
 
  return @filelist;
}
 
foreach(return_file_list()){
  open(FILE, $_) or die "Couldn't open $_";
  my $file = ;
  close FILE;
 
  if($file =~ /\bLocal\b/){
    print "File $_ contains localhost downloads\n";
  }
  else{
    print "Deleting $_\n";
    unlink or print "$!\n";
  }
}

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