[News.eclipse.technology.packaging] Re: self contained equinox based ecl

["Pascal Rapicault" <pascal_rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is really interesting work. Have you looked at creating an installer 
based on the equinox provisioning work?
One could think of two approaches here, one much like what you are doing and 
the other where the initial download would just be the installer and the 
rest of the bytes would be downloaded from the web.

PaScaL

"Ferenc Boldog" <ferenc.boldog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Hello
>
> I have created an eclipse installer.
> The installer contains "eclipse classic - windows (140 MB)", but with 
> little modification it could easily be used on other platforms.
> The installer would increase by 8 megabytes if it would contain the 
> necessary components to run on mac and linux, too.
>
> With this installer, the download size could be reduced from 140 mb to ~90 
> mb.
>
> The installer relies on Equinox, JFace and SWT.
>
> TODO:
> - install log in the unpacking process
> - clear the temp folder on exit (osgi configuration folder, etc)
> - IO & UI tweaks
> - Code clean, refactor ;)
>
> And the download:
> http://gear.hu/blog/coffeshrub/eclipse33_installer_win32.jar
>
> Ferenc Boldog