[g-h]

Unlike eclipse, MyEclipse does not seem to allow a relocation of the original installation directory. When I copy the installation folder to another directory, it wouldn’t start up anymore, leaving the following error message in a log-file:

Product com.genuitec.myeclipse.product.ide could not be found.

java.lang.RuntimeException: No application id has been found.
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppContainer.startDefaultApp(EclipseAppContainer.java:236)
….

it seems as if the connection between the {install-folder}/eclipse and {install-folder}/myeclipse/eclipse was hardcoded as an absolute path somewhere in the configuration.

and as all attempts to find this file failed, I strongly suppose that it must be a binary entry somewhere.

Background:

We are evaluating MyEclipse as the new IDE for our company.

Our developers should be able to simply extract a zip package containing MyEclipse + all the additional plugins and tools typically necessary. As the target installation directory will vary from developer to developer, the problem discribed above makes this impossible. (and maybe forces us to use eclipse instead, which has no problems with relocation).

Does anybody know the reason or even the solution of this problem?

thanks in advance!

kind regards
gottfr. h.

[Loyal Water]

Eclipse cannot be relocated unless you wipe the configuration directory.

It is not so easy with MyEclipse, if you relocate the dir you will have to re-add myeclipse as extension point. If you used the all in one installer then you can fix eclipse by modifying the links/com.genuitec.eclipse.MyEclipse.link file.

You can achieve what you want if you use pulse. Just create a profile that includes MyEclipse and share that profile with other developers.

[g-h]

Thanks a lot for the quick reply!

This link file was exactly what I was looking for. No idea, why all my scans did not find it.

And the solution turns out to be very simple:

just change the content of links/com.genuitec.eclipse.MyEclipse.link to:

path=..\myeclipse

and it will run from any directory!

thanks + kind regards
gottfr. h.

[Loyal Water]

Your Welcome.

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