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Re: [udig-devel] Interaction with system eclipse
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On Apr 7, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Tim Keitt wrote:
From time to time I download uDig and give it whirl. Looks very
promising.
I tried RC9 today and two things I noticed:
1) If I download and unzip everything into /opt/udig as root and then
run uDig as an ordinary user, it dies with JVM error code=13.
Apparently uDig needs write access to its installation directory in
order to work. That makes no sense in a Linux environment where app
directories are generally not touched by users.
There is a commandline option that allows you to set the
configuration location of uDig. By default it is in the eclipse/udig
installation. For example:
udig -configuration ~/.udig
to tell udig that the configuration should be at ~/.udig.
2) Running uDig will completely hose your existing eclipse
environment. I use eclipse for other programming projects and after
running uDig, I loose all my setting. Perspectives created by
installed plugins disappear (lots of 'cannot restore perspective'
errors). This has happened to me (today) when trying the all-in-one
download and previously when I've tried to run it without downloading
all the bundled Eclipse/JVM bits. Needless to say, this is exceedingly
annoying. Any tips on getting uDig to coexist with eclipse for other
uses?
I think Adrian addressed this one. Another command line option is
useful here -data. It tells eclipse where the workspace should be. So:
udig -data ~/udigWorkspace
Put the two together and you get:
udig -data ~/udigWorkspace -configuration ~/.udig
Hope this helps,
Jesse
