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Bug 456862

Summary: Provide a native self-extractor
Product: [Tools] Oomph Reporter: Eike Stepper <stepper>
Component: SetupAssignee: Eike Stepper <stepper>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 1.1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 459836    

Description Eike Stepper CLA 2015-01-07 03:34:05 EST 
The extractor is supposed to do the following:

1) detect available JREs,
2) extract a contained Eclipse product to a local folder of the user's choice,
3) launch the extracted product with a matching JRE, or
4) redirect the user to a web page with instructions on how to download and install a matching JRE.

The extractor will be a native executable at least for Windows 32 bit and 64 bit.
For other operating systems it's not known, yet, how to support self-extraction.
Comment 1 Eike Stepper CLA 2015-03-17 08:44:28 EDT 
The self-extractor is in use for a while now.