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Re: [epp-dev] Eclipse IDE on Windows Store?
I have my doubts that redistributing the JRE/JDK is the best approach. It would be really hard to keep up with all the updates for it. I'd prefer if the JRE/JDK installers take care of that.

But really, how hard would it be for an installer to check for a JRE and prompt the user through installing it. I continue to believe that the best installer strategy is to use a native installer that can manage native things like this.

Doug.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Eric Rizzo <eclipse-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If the effort were to be spent, I suggest proper packaging for Mac OS X should be considered as a priority. Many users on recent versions of OS X encounter confusing and contradictory  messages if they try the installer and don't already have a JDK installed. Oomph claims they can't fix it, and Equinox/Launcher hasn't yet responded to my bug report [1].
If we could find a way to package the JDK with the installer (or find another way to get it without user intervention/confusion, that would go a long way toward helping Mac users).

Eric

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=487355


February 9, 2016 10:40 AM
On 09/02/2016 3:31 AM, Mickael Istria wrote:

 I have, although it was over a year ago. It's ..... complicated. The issues are mostly around the packaging requirements and the legal terms and conditions. They are not insurmountable, but it would be a non-trivial amount of technical, legal, and administrative effort to get our packages into these channels.

In my humble opinion, if someone was volunteering to do more work in this area getting up-to-date packages into the Debian and Ubuntu apt repositories is where I would start. (I think you Red Hat folk are already keeping it current on Fedora/yum, right?)

Why do you ask?

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February 9, 2016 3:31 AM
Hi all,

Has anyone already evaluated the benefits/difficulties to have Eclipse IDE featured on the Window Store or other app stores?

 Cheers,
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