[cbi-dev] Building natives/launchers with CBI

[Denis Roy <denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings CBI followers,

I've been wondering about the feasibility of building the Eclipse 
launchers using CBI...  I'm referring to the eclipse.exe and "eclipse" 
executable files that start Eclipse.

If I am not mistaken, those files are currently being build elsewhere, 
and are deposited somewhere (Git?) to be consumed by EPP.

If these files could be built by CBI, I'm guessing they could be made 
slightly more intelligent to help detect the presence/absence of a JRE 
and offer usable help to our users.  This would be part of the overall 
plan to help improve the initial user experience to Eclipse, as outlined 
below:

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_User_Experience_2015

The actual bug to track this effort is:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=377116

Thanks for any input you have!

Denis