Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Equinox Launchers in 3.3 M5.

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Nick Boldt wrote:
> Well, it's not as bad as you'd think.
>
> If you're launching Eclipse from a shell script, you can just find the
> equinox jar and use that instead of startup.jar.
>
> cp=$(find $eclipseinstallDir -name "org.eclipse.equinox_*.jar" | sort
> | tail -1);
> /opt/java50/bin/java -cp $cp org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main ...
>
> If you're launching Eclipse from an ant script, you can use a mapper
> or simple copy/move to find the equinox jar and rename it so it's more
> accessible.
>
> <copy 
> tofile="${install}/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.jar">
> <fileset dir="${install}/eclipse/plugins"
> includes="**/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_*.jar"/>
> </copy>
> <java 
> classpath="${install}/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.jar"
> .../>
>
> If you're launching Eclipse from a cmd or bat script on Windows...
> well, you're on your own there. ;-)
Right, and a vast majority of the Eclipse users are on Windows...

So what you have is two solutions and one problem. Then multiply that 
with the number of headless products. I'm surprised that a decision was 
made to remove the only unified way to start this Java framework using 
Java and I would like to express a strong desire to have it reinstated. 
Please Equinox team, can you do that?

> Personally, I agree with you - a simple startup.jar that is nothing
> more than an org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main that calls into the right
> equinox jar and starts up org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main would make
> the transition much easier for existing users and embedded clients.
> Actually, if you look in /cvsroot/eclipse/equinox-incubator/ you'll
> see that there's already a core.launcher.Main that does that, but it
> seems it hasn't escaped incubation and made it into production code.
> Yet?
>
> If migrating to the new method is too onerous, I'd suggest opening a
> bug and asking the Equinox team to comment on the feasibility of what
> you and I've outlined.
I'll do that. This is important to me. Thanks for your input.

Kind Regards,
Thomas Hallgren