No splash screen

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Due to a bug in Tycho, the launcher does not include a splash screen if the 
name of the containing plug-in contains dots. The recommended workaround is to 
build a p2 repository instead of an application. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by peer.tor...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2011 at 6:08

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Quoting the e-mail conversation on this topic:

There is apparently a bug in Tycho that causes the name of the splash file to 
get corrupted in the generated config.ini if the name of the plug-in that holds 
the splash file contains dots (see 
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/662311/):

If the splash.bmp is located in plug-in 
org.socialmusicdiscovery.yggdrasil.foundation, the generated config.ini file 
holds the text
    osgi.splashPath=platform\:/base/plugins/org
when it should be
    osgi.splashPath=platform\:/base/plugins/org.socialmusicdiscovery.yggdrasil.foundation

The effect is that yggdrasil currently launches without a splash screen. The 
problem is easily verified by manually editing 
...\yggdrasil\org.socialmusicdiscovery.yggdrasil-product\target\win32.win32.x86\
eclipse\configuration\config.ini (or whatever target platform you built).

I did try to check-in the config.ini and change the product spec to use the 
existing file rather than generate a new, but this had no effect. Since the bug 
still doesn't seem to be fixed, we will probably have to redo this project and 
let Tycho build the product as "eclipse-repository" unless we can find some 
other workaround (I am not very eager to rename the project again and use an 
unqualified name, plug-ins benefit from qualified names just as Java classes 
do).

Original comment by peer.tor...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2011 at 6:11

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The problem is still present after upgrading to Tycho 0.13.

Original comment by peer.tor...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2011 at 6:12