Since the configuration manager and update manager for eclipse 3.2 is devoid of nice options for REMOVING or DELETING all my plugins it can be cumbersome to deal with needing to get your plugins in order. Just getting your dependencies worked out can be a nightmare when you have installed one version too high than you needed depending on the jdk version you are developing for.
Other than trashing the files in the plugins and features directory (which sometimes works) what other options do we have in a M$ environment?
In the situation where you are using RAD 7 you have to deal with the shared SDP70Shared folder too which is a bit ethereal as well.
I want to see a fool proof way to clean house for regular eclipse 3.x, RAD, or any all in one package that will work.
You could do a complete uninstall of eclipse and use a custom eclipse builder like http://www.yoxos.com/ondemand/%5D1 to create a build with the base set of plugins you use. I don’t recall how eclipse is configured in Windows, but in Linux there’s usually a hidden project directory in your work space that you may want to remove just in case. I’m not sure if there’s any registry settings you need to worry about though.