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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] MPC not opening with space in install path - requesting respin

Carsten,


Probably the worst case would be if the user's home folder name has spaces "C:\Users\john doe", but I suppose that in (almost?) all cases the user could choose to install to a location without spaces and in all cases the user can update MPC from a specific URL.


Given we are no longer in the business of providing update releases, to me it's a slippery slope to me if we start respinning releases to publish multiple releases.  My knee jerk reaction is to vote -1 on a respin.


Certainly the decision of whether we will do respins affects the decision of whether http://download.eclipse.org/releases/2018-09 for the September release can be a simple repository because there can/will never be updates versus whether it should be a composite to accommodate arbitrary/possible respins.


In any case, the combination of "I install to a disk location with spaces"  (which is generally always a bad idea because something is bound not to work properly because it's not been tested) with "I actually use MPC" is probably relatively small, but who knows.


Note that another possible solution to this problem for users who create their installations with the Eclipse Installer is to add the URL the MPC fix to the Oomph Product Catalog for all Photon Product Versions.  I tested this for installing the Committers Photon Product Version. I can see in the log (below) that it's loading your repos and in fact downloading the 1.7.1 versions of MPC's bundles.  Note that I would not be happy to add a repo URL that composes so many other repos.  E.g., you can see it's loading a bunch of milestones and even nightly build repos.  If we do add a URL, it should probably be specifically http://download.eclipse.org/mpc/releases/1.7.1 right?  I tested that as well,


Along a similar line of thinking, http://download.eclipse.org/releases/photon is a composite and http://download.eclipse.org/mpc/releases/1.7.1 could be added to that composite.  This would make check for updates work (I assume) and it would ensure that the existing Oomph Product Catalog would directly install the latest version of MPC during the initial installation process.  That would only leave the problem of unzipped packages not including the fix, but a comment on the web page where this is downloaded would somewhat help address that.


In the end, I think there are other approaches than a respin that would help minimize (and in many case eliminate) the problem.


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On 30.06.2018 00:54, Carsten Reckord wrote:

Hi everyone, 


Unfortunately I have to inform you that the Marketplace Client project will have to ask for a SimRel respin because of bug 536385 [1]. 

Due to this bug, the Marketplace Client in the Photon release fails to open for users that have their Eclipse installed into a path that contains spaces - or more accurately, whose configuration area path contains spaces.

This includes users who
- rename their Eclipse directory to something like "Eclipse Photon"
- install Eclipse under a path that has spaces, e.g. "/Users/john/My Projects/eclipse"
- use the "-configuration" option to set the config area to something with spaces in it

It does not include installations to read-only locations with spaces, e.g. "C:\Program Files\eclipse", because in that case, Eclipse will use a writeable overlay directory in $HOME/.eclipse without spaces. Overall, it's hard to estimate the percentage of our users affected by this, but there is some traffic on the bug and on several duplicates.

I've already published an MPC update with a fix to our release update site at http://download.eclipse.org/mpc/photon and users confirmed that it fixed the issue.

I'm asking for this respin, because this is obviously a very bad user experience for those affected, and MPC is an essential part of Eclipse's plug-in ecosystem. And secondly, with the way the packages are built, I can't push out an MPC update that would get picked up by "Check for updates", so users don't have any easy recourse to get the fix and I can't think of a "milder" solution to roll out this fix effectively.

Best regards,

Carsten


[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536385


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