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