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[Oomph] Can we limit the JRE versions to choose in the Installer? [message #1700123]

Tue, 30 June 2015 10:00

Silvestre Martins

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I would like to enforce the same JVM version in the installation for all developers, regardless the versions the developer may have installed in his machine.

Is this possible with Oomph?

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Re: [Oomph] Can we limit the JRE versions to choose in the Installer? [message #1700133 is a reply to message #1700123]

Tue, 30 June 2015 10:58

Eike Stepper

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Am 30.06.2015 um 12:00 schrieb Silvestre Martins:
> I would like to enforce the same JVM version in the installation for all developers, regardless the versions the
> developer may have installed in his machine.
>
> Is this possible with Oomph?
>
In Oomph's setup we specify a JRETask like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jdt:JRETask
xmi:version="2.0"
xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:jdt="http://www.eclipse.org/oomph/setup/jdt/1.0"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.eclipse.org/oomph/setup/jdt/1.0
http://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/models/JDT.ecore"
version="J2SE-1.5"
location="${jre.location-1.5}"/>

IIRC., higher JREs are considered valid substitutes.

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Re: [Oomph] Can we limit the JRE versions to choose in the Installer? [message #1700134 is a reply to message #1700133]

Tue, 30 June 2015 11:04

Silvestre Martins

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Eike Stepper wrote on Tue, 30 June 2015 06:58

Am 30.06.2015 um 12:00 schrieb Silvestre Martins:
> I would like to enforce the same JVM version in the installation for all developers, regardless the versions the
> developer may have installed in his machine.
>
> Is this possible with Oomph?
>
In Oomph's setup we specify a JRETask like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jdt:JRETask
xmi:version="2.0"
xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:jdt="http://www.eclipse.org/oomph/setup/jdt/1.0"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.eclipse.org/oomph/setup/jdt/1.0
http://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/models/JDT.ecore"
version="J2SE-1.5"
location="${jre.location-1.5}"/>

IIRC., higher JREs are considered valid substitutes.

Cheers
/Eike

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So I imagine that we are not able to block an higher JRE from being selected.

Another solution would be to allow to provision a JDK/JRE from the Oomph itself. I don't know if this makes sense at all.

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Re: [Oomph] Can we limit the JRE versions to choose in the Installer? [message #1700136 is a reply to message #1700134]

Tue, 30 June 2015 11:17

Eike Stepper

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Am 30.06.2015 um 13:04 schrieb Silvestre Martins:
> So I imagine that we are not able to block an higher JRE from being selected.
Correct.

> Another solution would be to allow to provision a JDK/JRE from the Oomph itself. I don't know if this makes sense at all.
Hard to say. Maybe you elaborate a little what you're imagining ;-)

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Re: [Oomph] Can we limit the JRE versions to choose in the Installer? [message #1700140 is a reply to message #1700136]

Tue, 30 June 2015 11:30

Silvestre Martins

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I want to enforce that all developers uses exactly the same setup for a given stream development, such as the version of Eclipse IDE, the Target Platform and other preferences. With Oomph this becomes very easy to implement and maintain.
However, with the current approach I cannot do the same for the JRE. Though the JRE is suppose to be fully compatible with previous versions, our product is tested for a given JRE version and shipped with that JRE, so I would like to restrict the version during installation. This would also ease the installation because the developer wouldn't need to install the JDK previously.

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Re: [Oomph] Can we limit the JRE versions to choose in the Installer? [message #1700144 is a reply to message #1700140]

Tue, 30 June 2015 11:53

Eike Stepper

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Am 30.06.2015 um 13:30 schrieb Silvestre Martins:
> I want to enforce that all developers uses exactly the same setup for a given stream development, such as the version
> of Eclipse IDE, the Target Platform and other preferences. With Oomph this becomes very easy to implement and maintain.
> However, with the current approach I cannot do the same for the JRE. Though the JRE is suppose to be fully compatible
> with previous versions, our product is tested for a given JRE version and shipped with that JRE, so I would like to
> restrict the version during installation. This would also ease the installation because the developer wouldn't need to
> install the JDK previously.
I'd like to discuss this topic with Ed but he's currently on travel. Can you please open an enhancement request as a
reminder?

Cheers
/Eike

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Cheers
/Eike

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