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Re: [cbi-dev] Building natives/launchers with CBI

Certainly interested. We've invested some thought into this already; the uDig project has started the IP due diligence process on it.

One thing that I'm not all that clear on is how much of the NSIS intellectual property actually ends up in the installer (i.e. there must be some NSIS runtime bits included in the distribution). Is this something that is relatively easily determined?

Wayne

On 06/11/14 12:18 PM, Philip Wenig wrote:
Hi Denis,

if it's of interest: I'm using NSIS to bundle my RCP application for Windows users since some years now:
http://openchrom.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/microsoft-windows-users-love-setup-files

I'm quite happy cause NSIS allows to build the setup.exe files under Linux too! :-). The executable is build using a shell script, triggered after a successful Maven/Tycho product build of my application. Furthermore, I also have automation scripts to build *.deb and *.rpm files. Only Mac OS X *.dmg images can't be produced under Linux, cause the hdiutil command line programm is missing.

If you'd like to, I'm willing to share my scripts.


Best,
Philip



Am 06.11.2014 um 17:45 schrieb Denis Roy:
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
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