Re: "IBM IES Feature"?

David Gibbs via WDSCI-L <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:27:44 -0600
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On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 10:45 AM Steve Ferrell via WDSCI-L <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, some of the IES features from the Eclipse site will not load because
> we have newer versions of the plugins than they require. Our IES (Eclipse)
> supplier is IBM, and we need to keep it up to date for security purposes.
>
> In your case, we ship the 3.0 version of the Launchbar and the version you
> are attempting to install requires version 2.5.200.202312281935:
>
> The Eclipse update wants to unload the newer version to install the older
> version. Something we would not want to occur.
>
>
I think it would be a good idea to either document this or, somehow,
prevent operations that would remove the IES feature.

Probably also disable the eclipse plug-in repositories in the default
configuration.

I suspect you will end up with people breaking their RDi install by trying
to upgrade an Eclipse-provided feature and letting the IES feature get
removed.

david
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