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

In many cases you may/should be able to copy the plugin files from your Eclipse 3.4 
install directory (i.e. eclipse/plugins) over to your new Galileo plugins directory.

There are some exceptions, but they tried to keep the plugin API and binaries 
backwards compatible with the previous release.  

You can find more information in the eclipse/readme directory under your 
Galileo install directory.  

See filename: readme_eclipse.html      Section: "Compatibility with Previous Releases"