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Preferences persistent across installations [message #754839]

Fri, 04 November 2011 11:08

Eclipse User

Hi,

I am looking for a way to persist preferences across installations of successive versions of our product. Specifically, we need to "remember" a license key when a new version is installed. This version may or may not be installed to the same directory as the previous version.

Any pointers appreciated.

thanks
Paul C. Meehan

Re: Preferences persistent across installations [message #754841 is a reply to message #754839]

Fri, 04 November 2011 11:10

Eclipse User

Ideally preferences stored in the Windows registry or an equivalent store on other OS's would seem to make most sense. A globally unique product ID could be the key in the registry, that way all versions of the product would look-up the same entry?

Re: Preferences persistent across installations [message #754847 is a reply to message #754841]

Fri, 04 November 2011 11:32

Eclipse User

Just remembered this can be done with Java Preferences (java.util.prefs.Preferences).

thanks

Re: Preferences persistent across installations [message #755086 is a reply to message #754839]

Mon, 07 November 2011 05:44

Eclipse User

W dniu 2011-11-04 16:08, Paul Meehan pisze:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a way to persist preferences across installations of
> successive versions of our product. Specifically, we need to "remember"
> a license key when a new version is installed. This version may or may
> not be installed to the same directory as the previous version.
>

PlatformUI.getPreferenceStore()

and

-data @user.home/.directory/ in Platform arguments

Re: Preferences persistent across installations [message #755622 is a reply to message #754839]

Tue, 08 November 2011 22:34

Eclipse User

Hi

Why not just store the license key in a file in .eclipse/ in the user's
home directory. There are other plug-ins that exactly do that (Equinox
secure store, ...)

Michael

Re: Preferences persistent across installations [message #755977 is a reply to message #755622]

Thu, 10 November 2011 06:22

Eclipse User

Michael Pellaton wrote on Tue, 08 November 2011 22:34

Hi

Why not just store the license key in a file in .eclipse/ in the user's
home directory. There are other plug-ins that exactly do that (Equinox
secure store, ...)

Michael

I have moved to the idea of storing the license key in a file.

*Problem is I want the same license key file to be available to all users of a machine*

e.g. on Windows 7, no matter what user you log on as you get the same license key. I can't save to the installation directory root as it's in Program Files on Windows 7 which cannot be written to unless your program is "elevated".

So I need a system wide location to read/write the license file, the users home directory won't cut it as it's not visible to ohter users of the same machine.

Paul C. Meehan

Re: Preferences persistent across installations [message #755986 is a reply to message #755977]

Thu, 10 November 2011 07:04

Eclipse User

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Re: Preferences persistent across installations [message #755988 is a reply to message #755986]

Thu, 10 November 2011 07:06

Eclipse User

I'm thinking the root of C drive might be best location for a system wide license key file. But is it always guaranteed to be mapped on Windows? What about Linux and OSX?

Re: Preferences persistent across installations [message #755991 is a reply to message #755988]

Thu, 10 November 2011 07:23

Eclipse User

On 2011-11-10 13:06, Paul Meehan wrote:
> I'm thinking the root of C drive might be best location for a system
> wide license key file. But is it always guaranteed to be mapped on
> Windows? What about Linux and OSX?

I cannot speak for non-Windows systems, but I can ensure you, that
storing something like this on the C root directory is a very bad idea
for several reasons.

a) The choice of C doesn't ensure that this is the drive where the
Windows OS is installed.

b) If it is installed there, this drive is often under special write
protection and you shouldn't break that.

On Windows systems you should use something like %ALLUSERSPROFILE% or
%PROGRAMDATA% for that purpose. This exist for exactly that purpose: To
share files among users. Don't forget to assign read access to all users
while installing it.

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler

Re: Preferences persistent across installations [message #756189 is a reply to message #755977]

Fri, 11 November 2011 07:42

Eclipse User

On 11/10/2011 12:22 PM, Paul Meehan wrote:
> So I need a system wide location to read/write the license file, the
> users home directory won't cut it as it's not visible to ohter users
> of the same machine.

AFAIK, most license managers solve the problem like:
- they have a default location (%system%\licdata\xyz.lic)
- this default can be overrridden by an environment
and/or registry setting
(possibly also with more than one directory).

Re: Preferences persistent across installations [message #756190 is a reply to message #755988]

Fri, 11 November 2011 07:43

Eclipse User

On 11/10/2011 1:06 PM, Paul Meehan wrote:
> I'm thinking the root of C drive might be best location for a system
> wide license key file. But is it always guaranteed to be mapped on
> Windows? What about Linux and OSX?

Also it is a pain in the back if an admin locks the location for a user
to store data there. You need the location configurable by the user.

Re: Preferences persistent across installations [message #756206 is a reply to message #756190]

Fri, 11 November 2011 08:34

Eclipse User

Thanks all

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