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oomph configuration in eclipse.ini useful? [message #1859583]

Fri, 16 June 2023 20:22

Scineer Scineer

Messages: 5
Registered: June 2023

Junior Member

I've recently upgraded my Eclipse to 2023-06. I examined my eclipse.ini which has been used for a few years and versions of Eclipse. I found two lines of oomph configuration:
```
-Doomph.update.url=http://download.eclipse.org/oomph/updates/milestone/latest
-Doomph.redirection.index.redirection=index:/->http://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/
```

I probably previously copied them from somewhere but I currently have no recollection why I did it.

Questions:

1. What do they do?
2. Are they still necessary or useful for the newest version of Eclipse, i.e. 2023-06?
3. In general how does one learn about the existence and usage of these configuration parameters? In particular, how would one know what the right parameter values should be given?

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Re: oomph configuration in eclipse.ini useful? [message #1859598 is a reply to message #1859583]

Mon, 19 June 2023 06:06

Ed Merks

Messages: 33145
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

The oomph.update.url is a variable used in some of the catalogs to determine the update site from which to install Oomph itself. If not specified, it defaults to https://download.eclipse.org/oomph/updates/latest
Any -Doomph.redirection.* options specifies to URIs separated by -> and will redirect the left-hand URI to the right-hand URI.

There is formation about such things here:

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Authoring#Hosting_your_own_index_.2F_catalogs

I need to update that documentation because Oomph as just migrated to GitHub:

https://github.com/eclipse-oomph/oomph/issues/3

So the new value for that will be https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eclipse-oomph/oomph/master/setups/

I don't think either one is strictly needed...

Ed Merks
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