Hi John,
Concerning updating the eclipse.exe. I was facing the same problem
within our proprietary software update solution and I found out that it
is possible to:
- first move/rename the *.exe to something like *.exe.backup with
File.renameTo(). It is possible to do that while the *.exe is running
and the move/renameTo is in the same folder.
- store the new *.exe in its location
- since it is not possible to delete the *.exe.backup since it is still
running it has to be "garbage collected" the next time the application
is running or at least the next time before an update for the *.exe is
requested.
This works well in WinXP/Vista. For Linux/Mac OS X I haver tested it.
Tschüß,
Stefan
John Arthorne wrote:
Hi Prodan, yes that is possible. The
"unzip" touchpoint instruction can lay down files anywhere on
your disk. Relative paths are treated as relative to the current
working
directory, which is the directory containing eclipse.exe. So you would
have a target path like "../folder1".
Currently p2 doesn't support
updating
an eclipse.exe that is currently running. We refactored most of the
launcher
code into a separate DLL so that upgrading the launcher itself should
be
quite rare. You can currently only do this by running p2 from a
separate
install folder (run the p2 director application and point it at the
installation
to upgrade).
Hello,
For an Eclipse based product that has the following content:
eclipse/
configuration/
dropins/
features/
jre/
p2/
plugins/
readme
folder1/
folder2/
is it possible to install updates that will be installed in folder1/ or
folder2/ ?
Equinox P2 can run updates that are actually .exe files and not only
eclipse
folder will be updated, but also files from folder1/ or folder2/ ?
And how the Equinox P2 manages updates that are executables? Runs the
.exe
file in background, in the command line? Or it can run the .exe file
and
start the graphic interface for that update and the user can go on with
the installation?
Thank you,
Daniela Prodan_______________________________________________
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