[dattark]

Yet again another MyEclipse 7.1 install problem.

Installed MyEclipse on Windows XP as user type Administrator. Install completed successfully. Logged Off Administrator. I noted that Myeclipse install had not created the MyEclipse 7.1 folder in the All Users / Start Menu / Program / folder.

Logged back into machine as a Limited user. Launched MyEclipse 7.1 directly from “C:\Program Files\Genuitec\MyEclipse 7.1\myeclipse.exe” . Program startup fails with
Error Message:
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An internal error occurred during” “Initializing TargetCfg”
Unable to write to C:\Program Files\Genuitec\Common\configuration\pulse2.properties
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When logged in as a Limited User, why is Myeclipse 7.1 trying to write user specific data into the Program Files directory ?

In another thread I read that Genuitec is asking the customer to allow the limited user to have write access to the Program Files directory. This is absurd. Genuitec needs to respect the customer’s right to basic security and the Windows guidelines to program installation. Genuitec should not require a customer configure their machine and allow limited users to have access to write to Program Files.

Genuitec needs to provide a fix for two problems in the installation of Myeclipse 7.1:
– Do not write user data to Program Files and please conform to Windows guidelines for program installation on the Windows platform
– Create the Myeclipse folder and icons in All Users / Start Menu / Program / folder during installation

[Loyal Water]

dattark,
I have forwarded your issue to the development and management teams and we are taking your report under further consideration. Thank you for bringing this up.

[Riyad Kalla]

why is Myeclipse 7.1 trying to write user specific data into the Program Files directory ?

There are application resources that are required at a universal “install” level that don’t belong in the workspace. Historically, we have always written those back to the install directory to make the changes visible if the install is shared across multiple people (assuming of course read/write permissions are all copasetic)

In another thread I read that Genuitec is asking the customer to allow the limited user to have write access to the Program Files directory.

On XP it’s possible, but on Vista we’ve never recommended that to my knowledge now that Program Files is a protected system resource. If providing write access to a subdirectory of Program Files is absurd, then another install location is just as valid — ultimately we just need read/write to the install directory.

Genuitec should not require a customer configure their machine and allow limited users to have access to write to Program Files.

We don’t care where you install it, we just need write access to the MyEclipse install directory. If that is C:\Program Files\MyEclipse 7.1 or C:\Dev\Tools\MyEclipse 7.1 — either way we need write access to that install dir. We don’t state *anywhere* that you need to provide write access to the entire C:\Program Files directory — that *would* be absurd 😉

[dattark]

So why cannot the installer, when running under the Administrator account, perform all the setup it needs in the Program Files directory.
That way the limited user account does not need any write access to the Program Files directory or sub directories thereof.
(Just the way it worked with 5.5)

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