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Eclipse Update asking for workspace.location on startup [message #1824416]

Wed, 15 April 2020 05:41

Christian Pontesegger

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Graz, Austria

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Hi,

I often use the oomph expert mode to deploy a fresh Eclipse instance (eg IDE for Eclipse Committers). When I am not selecting any project to be provisioned, I end up with problems with the workspace.location variable. No matter what I set there, Eclipse will nag me to fill out this variable on each IDE startup showing the Eclipse Updater popup.

Is there a way to fill out this variable properly?

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Re: Eclipse Update asking for workspace.location on startup [message #1824443 is a reply to message #1824416]

Wed, 15 April 2020 11:35

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

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The workspace.location variable comes from (is induced from) a Workspace task which has ID workspace and only the Project Catalogs have a Workspace task. If you have tasks that are not in Project setup, it will be better to use ${osgi.instance.area} because that value is always defined by the Equinox runtime.

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Re: Eclipse Update asking for workspace.location on startup [message #1824481 is a reply to message #1824443]

Thu, 16 April 2020 03:30

Eike Stepper

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Registered: July 2009

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Note also the following:

1) ${osgi.instance.area} expands to a URI, typically a file: URI. Use ${osgi.instance.area|file} to convert it to a file system path.
2) At BOOTSTAP trigger the ${osgi.instance.area} points to the instance area of the installer itself, i.e., its configuration folder.

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