A new version of Eclipse just came out. Is there anything I can do to avoid having to manually hunt down my plugins again?

Question

Galileo came out the other day, and even though plugins under Eclipse are, IMO, just a little bit easier to deal with than Netbeans, it would still be really awesome if ther

Answer 1

Take a look into this blog entry: How to make your Eclipse plugin list survive an Eclipse upgrade

I also used the Yoxos service to build my "own" Eclipse distribution. I guess it should be easy possible to just upgrade the core elements in such a profile, keeping the plugins. It has included dependency checking, so it's very nice to get a distribution running.