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Mon, 23 December 2019 19:13

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Opens the dialog with the following message: could not start Goclipse because Java version is: 0 version 8 is required, can anyone help me solve?

Re: Mistake [message #1818704 is a reply to message #1818700]

Tue, 24 December 2019 00:55

Eclipse User

It's probably best to ask on the Goclipse forum:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/goclipse

Note that this project is not an Eclipse-hosted project so it's hard to help with problems specific to Goclipse...

Re: Mistake [message #1820979 is a reply to message #1818704]

Mon, 03 February 2020 13:32

Eclipse User

For what it's worth, it looks like goClipse has been abandoned since 2017 and it even appears like it is no longer supported.

I tried installing goClipse with Eclipse version 2019-12 and it appeared like it was just a shell for the user interface. All the default "tools" under it's preferences were blank/empty when the documentation appears to suggest there should be something there as installed by default.

I also followed the provided link from above, and the developer states they are no longer supporting it.

I'm just curious, if a plugin has not been active since 2017, how are us end users supposed to know? I guess marketplace does not filter by compatibility? Or someone is just blindly marking goClipse as compatible? It looks like there were a large number of downloads through market place, but I'm having serious doubts that most of those downloads resulted in a functional product? It would be nice if market place also showed the number of uninstalls too, or perhaps a way to indicate that it does not work?

The bottom line here is that goClipse would not work for me with Eclipse version 2019-12, and with it being abandoned back in 2017, I don't think its worth trying to manually force it to work. Go is a life and thriving language, so there has to be something out there to better support the newer constructs and dynamics of the current golang releases.

Re: Mistake [message #1820982 is a reply to message #1820979]

Mon, 03 February 2020 20:45

Eclipse User

It might be more about the version of Java running Eclipse than anything to do with Eclipse itself. This message looks familiar... Try it again with Java 8.

[Updated on: Mon, 03 February 2020 20:45] by Moderator

Re: Mistake [message #1820986 is a reply to message #1820982]

Tue, 04 February 2020 00:43

Eclipse User

Looking at this listing, it doesn't look totally dead because it's been recently updated:

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/goclipse

We (the royal we, as in I) do test whether listings can be successfully installed:

https://www.eclipse.org/setups/marketplace/?id=686976

But only the authors (users) test whether it actually works well.

The listing's home link navigates to this:

http://goclipse.github.io/

But the forum does look pretty dead...

Re: Mistake [message #1836994 is a reply to message #1818700]

Wed, 20 January 2021 13:37

Eclipse User

I finally found something on this. I was able to resolve it by deleting the jvmcheck file. Here is the link to the ticket.

https://github.com/GoClipse/goclipse/issues/256

Your file name may be slightly different. I did a search for "jvmcheck" and deleted the one file that showed up.

It's too bad this plugin was abandoned. I wish someone would take up the mantle; it seems like a popular plugin.

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