Bug 9154 - Check if running on required JRE version during startup
Summary: Check if running on required JRE version during startup
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9027
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Resources (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: DJ Houghton CLA
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: 9270 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2002-02-06 07:05 EST by Wolfgang Frech CLA
Modified: 2002-04-25 18:24 EDT (History)
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Description Wolfgang Frech CLA 2002-02-06 07:05:40 EST 
The eclipse platform should check if it is running on a required JRE (1.3) platform.

Eclipse starts on JRE 1.4 (beta) without observable problems, and aborts later.
 See http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6587
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2002-03-04 15:00:18 EST 
This is practically impossible to check.  We will never know the complete set of 
VMs that are capable of running Eclipse across all platforms and VM vendors, and 
trying to do so would invariably prevent running on a VM that would otherwise 
work fine.  If there are particular problems with running on any VM that is 1.3 
or greater, please log as separate PRs.
Comment 2 Wolfgang Frech CLA 2002-03-05 09:37:24 EST 
I still think the feature is possible.  It is not very urgent, anyway.

In more words:
The eclipse platform should check at start-up if it runs on a known supported,
known unsupported, or unknown platform.  It should (try to) start in any case
and warn about the latter two.
Typically the minor version (second digit) of the Java platform is either known
to be supported or not, as there are incompatible changes from 1.2 to 1.3 to
1.4.  On the other hand, bug fix version (third digit), vendor and OS platform
will be more likely soft criteria, as there are many unknown platform
implementations.
The warning should be configurable ("Show this warning at next start-up?")
Comment 3 DJ Houghton CLA 2002-04-11 14:05:31 EDT 
*** Bug 9270 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 John Arthorne CLA 2002-04-25 18:24:25 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9027 ***