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We have a lot of internal developers that would like to use this IDE tool.
| What Patch My PC product is this new application request for? | Patch My PC Enterprise |
The Eclipse IDE installer does not natively support silent installations, which prevents us from including this application in our catalog at this time. As a portable application, it can be extracted and run from any location. The vendor provides a ZIP file that users can extract to their desired location. However, our current detection scripts rely on a DisplayName and DisplayVersion being present in the Add/Remove Programs (ARP) entry.
To address this limitation, it may be possible to configure Eclipse as a Custom App, utilizing scripting to extract the zip file to your preferred installation directory, create shortcuts, and create the necessary ARP entries to enable compatibility with our detection scripts.
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WILL NOT IMPLEMENT
Hey Jason, according to a post I recently saw, Eclipse would support having the package extracted to a certain location. (https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=1111000&goto=1853083&#msg_1853083) Would it be possible to have some sort of custom "installer" for Eclipse in PMPC, where essentially you and your team keep the package up-to-date? That way, we could still enforce that the used Eclipse version is uptodate.
Unfortunately, the Eclipse IDE installer does not support silent installs.
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This is another one that would be really nice to have in PMP