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Why not common distro - All - for eclipse SDKs : [message #327039] Mon, 07 April 2008 14:07
Chandresh Gandhi is currently offline Chandresh GandhiFriend
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Hi,

why don't we have eclipse SDK distro common to all platforms - as "All" in
download page in eclipse.org ??

interesting part is that among all SDKs - different for each major
platform - big size of stuffs seems same. - It leads to redundancy amonng
same.

main objective here is first n foremost our porduct supports almost all
OSs/Platforms .. and have to have same common distro in shared - among
those machines - to avoid redundancy -.

we need to do same kind of work from all diff. platform machine.

now bit more interesting ... as we have gained from URL,

http://help.eclipse.org/help33/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse. platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/launcher.html


The org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.${platform}.${version} folders are only
used by the platform specific binary launcher during start-up.

e.x. eclipse for Win32 contains
org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.0.v20070523 in its
plugins directory for such usage only . Likewise for any platform specific
eclipse ….

Launching eclipse from command line using
java –jar org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.${version}.jar
doesn't require the
org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.${platform}.${version} folder at all.

now, as you might have observed RCPDeltaPack/plugins contains
org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.${platform}.${version} fragments/folders for
each platforms – they are platform specific - along with other stuffs.


So, once we merge "a eclipse SDK" and "compatible RCP" delta pack and then
remove org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.${platform}.${version} folders from
its plugins/ directory,

Shouldn't
java -jar org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.${version}.jar launch eclipse from
all different platform perfectly - perhaps it's starting point in this
direction -
(I also need to give it proper try)

How do you see these concepts n scenarios?? Any Ideas on these Pls ??
Is this launcher jar independent of OS/Platforms ? so, that I can invoke
eclipse same way.

Thanks,
Chandresh Gandhi (Skype Id : chandreshgandhi).
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