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How is Oomph packaged into a single file? [message #1702510]

Wed, 22 July 2015 14:56

Eclipse User

I am writing a custom RCP application for my organization. We're planning to host a P2 server locally to distribute updates. I'd like to package a custom version of the Oomph installer that could be downloaded and ran in order to install our tool. Basically a web installer for our tool.

I've read over the information here https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Authoring#Hosting_your_own_index_.2F_catalogs and it seems fairly trivial to redirect oomph toward a custom index. And I understand how to edit the ini. What I don't follow is how is oomph being packaged into the single file .exe? I have downloaded the source code and successfully built it, but all I get is a typical eclipse product in a regular zip file. How is the self extracting executable being created?

Thanks all! Oomph is awesome and I've been learning a lot about eclipse development looking over this project.

Re: How is Oomph packaged into a single file? [message #1702685 is a reply to message #1702510]

Fri, 24 July 2015 02:46

Eclipse User

Am 22.07.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Nate Jones:
> I am writing a custom RCP application for my organization. We're planning to host a P2 server locally to distribute
> updates. I'd like to package a custom version of the Oomph installer that could be downloaded and ran in order to
> install our tool. Basically a web installer for our tool.
>
> I've read over the information here
> https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Authoring#Hosting_your_own_index_.2F_catalogs and it seems fairly trivial to
> redirect oomph toward a custom index. And I understand how to edit the ini. What I don't follow is how is oomph
> being packaged into the single file .exe? I have downloaded the source code and successfully built it, but all I get
> is a typical eclipse product in a regular zip file. How is the self extracting executable being created?
That's quite a complicated process and I don't have the time to explain it in depth. But the pieces are all in our Git
repo and you should be able to get the idea by looking at the C code in org.eclipse.oomph.extractor project and the
repackage.sh script in the org.eclipse.oomph.releng project.

> Thanks all! Oomph is awesome and I've been learning a lot about eclipse development looking over this project.
Thanks. Our pleasure ;-)

Cheers
/Eike

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Re: How is Oomph packaged into a single file? [message #1702985 is a reply to message #1702685]

Mon, 27 July 2015 13:23

Eclipse User

Thanks, Eike. I looked through those files and followed most of what you guys are doing. Definitely complex, but I think I followed most of it. Was there a reason that you guys decided to go that route rather than using a program like 7-zip or winrar to build your sfx file?

Re: How is Oomph packaged into a single file? [message #1702986 is a reply to message #1702985]

Mon, 27 July 2015 13:29

Eclipse User

Am 27.07.2015 um 19:23 schrieb Nate Jones:
> Thanks, Eike. I looked through those files and followed most of what you guys are doing. Definitely complex, but I
> think I followed most of it.
Very good ;-)

> Was there a reason that you guys decided to go that route rather than using a program like 7-zip or winrar to build
> your sfx file?
I'm not familiar with those. re they and their results EPL-compatible? Would they run on our Linux Hudson server?

Cheers
/Eike

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Re: How is Oomph packaged into a single file? [message #1703005 is a reply to message #1702986]

Mon, 27 July 2015 16:55

Eclipse User

I don't think that WinRAR would be. 7-zip is open source and has a gnu LGPL license. Not sure how that matches up with EPL. I know there is a linux port of 7zip but I'm not really familiar with it. Not sure if it would be worth the time to research since you guys already have a working portable solution up and running.

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