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Rename the eclipse parent folder name to contain a #, then eclipse can not start up. After debug we found out that there is a bug in the method buildURL() in class LocationHelper. In following code: if (isFile) return adjustTrailingSlash(new File(spec.substring(5)).toURL(), trailingSlash); return new URL(spec); here we think you should use new file().toURI().toURL() instead.
This is a known problem and is listed in the README file. Tom, are we considering relaxing this restraint?
This is a dup of bug 3109. We have no plans to fix this limitation. I will leave this open to investigate if there is an acceptable fix for 3.5 M7. If the fix is too risky we would have to defer to the next release. This area has proven to be sensitive to change and can easily introduce regressions. For example, File.toURI().toURL() would encode the special characters (e.g. space) which none of our clients are prepared to handle.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3109 ***
*** Bug 268109 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***