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Bug 168247

Summary: Processing program args does not account for args containing spaces
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Pascal Rapicault <pascal>
Component: UIAssignee: PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: aniefer, mn
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: 3.3 M7   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Pascal Rapicault CLA 2006-12-15 13:24:48 EST 
The current way of entering program arguments seems to confuse people because (see bug #162075). It would be good to be able to have something more user friendly their but I'm not sure what though.
Comment 1 Wassim Melhem CLA 2007-02-05 02:13:04 EST 
looking at bug 162075, it's not the way people enter program/vm arguments.  That's straight forward and people are doing it correctly.

It's the way we process them when we create the ini file that is buggy and needs to account for spaces.
Comment 2 Andrew Niefer CLA 2007-02-23 09:23:32 EST 
fyi, I'm going to try and do something for the headless case of this (bug 162075) for eclipseCon, I think the simplest thing is to use StreamTokenizer to allow quoting.  I don't think we want build to introduce a dependency on debug just to get the ExecutionArguments suggested here https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162075#c2
Comment 3 Wassim Melhem CLA 2007-04-09 02:13:54 EDT 
Fixed using ExecutionArguments.