Closed maxandersen closed 2 years ago
merks
commented
2 years ago I expect that the installer process does not have write access to the /Applications folder. If you do run it as "su" then you'd better be careful and read all the details on this page:
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/installer/question/
I.e., be careful where the bundle pool is located or disable that.
maxandersen
commented
2 years ago @merks it does have write access. Since just putting /Applications it talks about /Applications/Eclipse.app already existing and then running install works.
This does not have much to do with su but with misleading UI message here.
maxandersen
commented
2 years ago What i'm after is having one folder where I have eclipse installed. Yes, I could put this in ~/eclipse/Eclipse.app too - but that gives same error.
merks
commented
2 years ago Please see this link for reporting problems:
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/installer/problem/
But note that I only have a mac virtual box so fixing Mac things is a challenge at best.
The application will necessarily be called Eclipse.app (just as that is the name in the *.dmg) so you should not specify that part of the name but rather you should specify a folder that can be created in which Eclipse.app will in turn will exist. This won't change...
maxandersen
commented
2 years ago May I suggest that the UI message actually tells why folder named Eclipse.app is not accepted?
The behaviour of this dialog is just hard to follow when it comes to warnings/errors.
Now when I run installer I get this:
if I put "/Users/max/" it tells me "The folder is specified as /Users/max/ but /Users/max will be used' - those are equivalent.
If I put "/Users/max/eclipse" when "Eclipse.app" exist I get a warning "Product folder '/Users/max/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/Eclipse" already exists. What is "Product" folder ? it is not used in the other warning/errors.
If I click Install it actually installs on top of existing install.
And now the kicker - if I put "/Users/max/eclipse/Eclipse.app" then it does not behave the same as when "/Applications/Eclipse.app" is specified. No warning/error given.
merks
commented
2 years ago You may suggest many things, but this is not the place to report a problem nor to make suggestions about the installer. It's hard to even comment on the state of your file system. I don't even know if you've already installed an application inside the another application's folder and in which cases you've done that or not.
It would of course be best if you tried to contribute your suggestions because somehow macos is always a bit 'special':
maxandersen
commented
2 years ago I gave up trying to find where to report issues - this repo was what bugs.eclipse.org points to when trying to open issues and not knowing where to put.
afaics there is nothing osx special here though - similar happens on Windows.
Which is the right place to open issues on this?
merks
commented
2 years ago I did mentioned where to look in this response:
https://github.com/eclipse-platform/.github/issues/58#issuecomment-1232838434
Here's the direct link:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Oomph&component=Setup&short_desc=Installer
not sure why i'm allowed to edit the install folder but it wont let me install ?