Hi
I thought I had raised a Bugzilla on this but cannot find it.
IMHO the eclipse.exe launcher should diagnose the suitability of the
user's platform for Eclipse and provide helpful diagnostics rather than
a Java bang dialog. This should all be done before Java is started.
Wrong Java version is an obvious check. Historically, the Microsoft Java
was a regular user hazard.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 23/03/2020 15:25, Daniel Megert wrote:
HI Matthias
> letting things (like Help) fail seems not very nice from the user’s
point of view. I would vote for requiring Java 11 at the start.
I agree.
I'm not a p2 expert, so,, no, I can't answer your question to an end,
but I assume that it won't warn and just fail on restart.
Dani
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Date: 23.03.2020 13:59
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Hi Dani,
letting things (like Help) fail seems not very nice from the user’s
point of view. I would vote for requiring Java 11 at the start.
@Dani: Do you also have answers to my other questions?
Regards,
Matthias
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It depends. We (the platform) can require/hardcode Java 11 when you
start the SDK or we do not enforce this but let things like Help/Jetty
fail. Our position is that users need Java 11 for 2020-09.
Dani
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Date: 23.03.2020 10:57
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Hi everybody,
do I understand this correctly that the 2020-09 release needs at least
a Java 11 VM to run? Will it no longer run on a Java 8 VM?
Will platform raise the Bundle-Execution Environment?
If release 2020-09 will only run on Java11 and newer: How does
platform's "Check for Updates" handle this? What happens if a user has
an existing installation running on Java 8 (and this is the user's one
and only Java VM)? Does P2 tell the user that the new bundles to be
installed require Java 11 but that the current installation does not
supply this?
Regards,
Matthias
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Subject: *[eclipse-pmc] Upgrading the Eclipse SDK target environment
for the *September* Eclipse release...
Hello cross project people,
The Eclipse Project PMC has approved a change to the target
environments for the 2020-09 Eclipse release of the Eclipse Project
(that is, our 4.17 release) to be based on Java 11. This will allow us
to include Jetty 10, when it is available as indicated here:
_https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jetty-dev/msg03214.html_
Given that this change has the potential to impact downstream
projects, we are asking for feedback now: please let us know if you
believe this will cause problems for your project.
Note that we are not asking teams to update the BREE for their
components, and it is fine for components to support earlier versions
of Java. This note is just identifying the version of Java that we
will use to validate the September release, and thus will be the
supported version for the Eclipse SDK.
thanks,
the Eclipse Project PMC
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