[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: JRE 1.4.2 with Eclipse 3.4?

[petef310@xxxxxxxxx (Peter Ford)]

Eric Rizzo wrote:


> I actually think the problem in Peter's particular case is that the 
> "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" package specifies 
> "-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5" in its eclipse.ini
> While I understand that Mylyn requires 1.5, I don't think anything else 
> that is "crucial" to the Java dev tools does, so it seems to me that 
> this is an unnnecessary restriction for that package (Mylyn is, IMO, 
> still an optional piece of functionality that should not prevent the 
> entire tool from loading).

> I've opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=248976 about this.

> Eric

If bug 174515 is all that happens when Eclipse tries to load in a JRE 
that's insufficient for its plugins, then it does seem like it might be 
worth making eclipse.ini less fussy - or telling users how to do 
themselves it in the documentation.


Anyway, here's my bug: 

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=249063


Thanks everyone for your help,
Peter