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When I downloaded the Galileo version of Eclipse, I picked the CDT version and it came with the Mylyn plug-in. I ignored the plug-in until very recently and I'm sorry I did. If you work on multiple projects in Eclipse it can be a very handy tool. Even if you just work on one project at a time it would still prove useful. I have a short blog and screencast (1 minute long) describing it in more detail and showing it in action.

I recently read about this! I wanted to try it, but was concerned that adding a plugin to the NBEclipse build might mess it up. Does this work with NBEclipse?

In the past some plug-ins worked fine with NBEclipse and some didn't. All were harder to install and update because the part of Eclipse that automates this process has been stripped out. If you're worried you can do one of two things.

1. Backup your NBEclipse folder first so you can easily get back to a non-mylyn version.
2. Download the full Galileo version of Eclipse for C++ developers, it includes Mylyn. Then copy over the NetBurner plugins, see the Galileo wiki article for more details on doing this.

I personally like option 2 and it's the one I have experience with. If you have any problems you can just launch the NBEclipse version. Nothing about installing Galileo interferes with keeping and running NBEclipse. You can even run them at the same time but that would require the use of two different workspaces which you probably don't want to do. You can play it really safe and make a backup copy of your workspace before using Galileo.

I found things went much smoother with my overall NB development once I moved to the standardized version of Eclipse. When you first get started with NB development I think it helps that NB bundled a stripped down version of Eclipse with the NNDK. Once you're comfortable with NB programming I think it makes sense to move up to the latest Eclipse release. I use plug-ins for collaboration, source code management, html/js/css editing etc. This is all easier to do in Galileo. I don't know for sure but I believe the NNDK includes a stripped down version of the Europa release, since then Ganymede and then Galileo were released. In a little more than a month I expect the Helios version will get released.

tod,

I did this and got the NB tools going on the latest eclipse build, no problem. I like this Mylyn thing already, although I still haven't learned how to use most of it yet its great to have modules and functions listed as you search for/work on them. This also allows me to use the perforce plugin, which I've been wanting to get working for awhile. Thanks for your help!