I have several good plugins in my IDEA and now switched to new version. All settings have been exported and then imported but plugins. How can I easily move them from 11 to 12 version? Thanks.
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I have several good plugins in my IDEA and now switched to new version. All settings have been exported and then imported but plugins. How can I easily move them from 11 to 12 version? Thanks.
IntelliJ IDEA manages plug-ins compatibility when plug-ins are installed from the repository, it automatically finds the latest compatible version when downloading.
However, if you just copy version 11 compatible plug-ins to IDEA 12, it will most likely break and even not start as there were a lot of API changes and many plug-ins would require upgrading to be fully compatible with IDEA 12.
It’s exactly the case why plug-ins are not automatically copied to the new version when you import the settings from the old version.
Even if a plug-in is listed as compatible, it may still not work if the maintainer didn’t limit the upper compatible build number or did it incorrectly.
I would strongly recommend installing plug-ins that you need from the repository carefully checking the latest release date and compatibility information. If someting breaks and IDEA stops working, delete the incompatible plug-in manually from the plugins directory.
Considering that IDEA 12 is not even released at the moment of this writing (RC3 is available), it may take some time until all the plug-ins that you need are updated to be compatible with this version. You may want to continue using IDEA 11 version until it happens.
If you want to take the risk, just copy plug-ins directory from the old version to the new one, but you’ve been warned.