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Bug 465476

Summary: Name of the Eclipse Installer executable: oomph?
Product: [Tools] Oomph Reporter: Markus Knauer <mknauer>
Component: SetupAssignee: Eike Stepper <stepper>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert, Ed.Merks, mober.at+eclipse, stepper, wayne.beaton
Version: 1.1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Bug Blocks: 459836    

Description Markus Knauer CLA 2015-04-25 06:43:54 EDT 
From a projects point of view, it is desirable to name the executable of the Eclipse Installer 'oomph', and maybe this is something that affects Linux users only (the Windows download is a .exe file, on Mac OSX it looks like a .app directory after unpacking the archive - I cannot judge on those two systems).

But as a first-time user who wants to download Eclipse, and who doesn't know anything about the Oomph project, it is a big surprise that they need to execute something that's called 'oomph' when they just finished downloading an Eclipse Installer. I think, especially the first time users will have problems with that naming scheme. I would rename it to 'installer' (note that I always omit blanks in filenames because it is another source for potential problems).

What's your thinking about this?
Comment 1 Eike Stepper CLA 2015-05-03 14:25:01 EDT 
I agree that this is a very sensible topic from both a user's perspective and a technical perspective. I think the launcher name must be the same on all platforms (to not blow up the build logic and to not confuse users with different names). I also think that after the build (and as part of the repackaging) the launcher cannot simply be renamed. We would like to call it something like "Eclipse[ -_]?Installer" on all platforms, but we found out that on Windows you just can't pin programs to the taskbar that contain the word "installer".
Comment 2 Eike Stepper CLA 2015-05-09 04:07:59 EDT 
*** Bug 466865 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Eike Stepper CLA 2015-05-09 04:09:10 EDT 
So what are concrete suggestions regarding a better executable name? Keep in mind that it should not contain the characters "installer" (see comment #1)...
Comment 4 Eike Stepper CLA 2015-05-09 04:17:47 EDT 
Minor correction after playing with some options: On Windows 7 you just can't pin executables to the taskbar that contain "Install" or "Setup" in their name.
Comment 5 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2015-05-09 17:18:42 EDT 
And what is the value of pinning the installer to the taskbar ... why would I want or need that ?
Comment 6 Eike Stepper CLA 2015-05-11 06:18:32 EDT 
What about calling the executable just "eclipse(.exe)"?! That would also match the generated "eclipsec(.exe)" more nicely..
Comment 7 Wayne Beaton CLA 2015-05-13 14:42:13 EDT 
(In reply to Eike Stepper from comment #6)
> What about calling the executable just "eclipse(.exe)"?! That would also
> match the generated "eclipsec(.exe)" more nicely..

+1

Either that or something like "installer(.exe)"
Comment 8 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2015-05-30 02:41:30 EDT 
I think anything that starts with "eclipse" would be good. Since then it matches the name of the downloaded archive (eclipse-installer) so it's more obvious what to launch rather than if the name is "oomph". For example:

- eclipse(.exe)
- eclipse-bootstrap(.exe)
- eclipse-downloader(.exe)
- eclipse-download-center(.exe)
- eclipse-installer(.exe)
- eclipse-install-center(.exe)
- eclipse-setup(.exe)

I didn't quite undestand from comment 2 why pinning to the taskbar would be desirable for the eclipse installer. So my personal preference would be calling it "eclipse-installer" which would also match the name in the splash screen.
Comment 9 Eike Stepper CLA 2015-05-30 03:38:53 EDT 
I'll rename the launcher to "eclipse-installer"...