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Bug 186151

Summary:	[launcher] equinox.launcher and osgi must be in 'plugins' directory
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Thomas Watson <tjwatson>
Component:	Launcher	Assignee:	Project Inbox <equinox.launcher-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipsebugs.20.seh, eric_w_li, pascal
Version:	3.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Thomas Watson

2007-05-09 09:32:45 EDT

The org.eclipse.equinox.launcher seems to require that itself and org.eclipse.osgi must be co-located in a directory named 'plugins'.  This seems like an arbitrary restriction.  Can we support org.eclipse.equinox.launcher and org.eclipse.osgi co-located in any directory name?

There may be a few assumptions that would become invalid if we did this.  For example the osgi.install.area may not always be the parent directory of the 'plugins' directory containing org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.

Comment 1 Steven E. Harris

2007-05-09 12:26:50 EDT

One further point, as noted here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.eclipse.equinox.devel/1652

Must the "configuration" directory be a sibling of "plugins" or whatever directory holds the launcher and org.eclipse.osgi bundle, or can it be someplace else, such as a child directory as expected (by default) by the embedded use of EclipseStarter?

Comment 2 Thomas Watson

2007-05-10 09:28:34 EDT

You can point to a configuration by using the -configuration option.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 15:34:50 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2021-09-05 11:22:00 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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