List with them, or (B) it doesn't know how to install there at all, so Thus detect these files and pre-populate the eclipse installations Therefore,Įither (A) the installer knows how to handle this situation and can Package managers, which will ALWAYS stick both the eclipse executableĪnd the eclipse.ini file in a single, unchanging location. We accept that this unclustered installation process is unique to I'm a bit stuck about how to figure out a better way. In the installer should be obvious enough to a seasoned linux user,īut this is clearly not an optimum solution for installing lombok on Fortunately, the text in the 'what do I do?' link The act of pointing the installer at a custom eclipse is going to be This entire process is just going to fail on an apt-getted eclipse,īecause eclipse.ini isn't anywhere near eclipse the executable.

Is what the installer actually works with. Then translates the path to the executable to a path to the ini, which The executable or a directory containing the executable. 'add eclipse.' button, the user is supposed to navigate to either

Process, whenever the user tries to add an eclipse by hand using the

It then drops lombok.jar in the same directory asĮclipse.ini and makes the edit. Right now, the installer accomplishes these goals by looking for theĮclipse executable, knowing that it can go from there to eclipse.iniĮasily: It's either right there in the same dir, or it's inĮclipse.app/MacOS/Resources relative to the directory that theĮxecutable is in. Might be hidden somewhere in the insides of the eclipse install. It needs to hide these details from the end user, who probablyĭoesn't even know there's such a thing as eclipse.ini, and that it It needs to put lombok.jar in a suitable place.ģ. It needs to find eclipse.ini, and edit references to lombok.jarĢ. Usr/bin, and /usr/lib) is totally different from how the downloadableĮclipse package (from ) works, which bundles all files intoġ. Given app across a bunch of directories, such as in this case, across / The much bigger concern is how the LSB view (of splitting files for a Well, at the very least we can have a quick look in /usr/lib/eclipseĪnd see if there's an eclipse.ini there, and use it.

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