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Building a cross-platform, feature-based Eclipse RCP Product with Tycho II: Mind your OSs

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If you have followed Building a cross-platform, feature-based Eclipse RCP Product with Tycho (the umpteenth), and have run the build on a Windows system, you will have ended up with non-executable products for Mac OS X and Linux.

What this means is that the product will build just fine, but when transferring the product zips to the target system (Mac OS X, Linux), unzipping them, and trying to run them by double-clicking on the executable, nothing will happen. This is due to the fact that Windows does not know about file system permissions, as used for *nix systems (such as Mac OS X and Linux).

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A Stack Exchange site for the Eclipse community?!

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Earlier this week, I’ve been listening to Episode #87 of the (then) Stack Overflow Podcast, where Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky as well as the (then) new Community Coordinator Robert Cartaino discussed some of the fundamental features of and ideas behind the Stack Exchange platform, which sets it apart from other interactive community platforms such as phpBB or vBulletin.

Websites built on Stack Exchange (SE) are Q&A sites. And while some of the other community platforms (e.g., see above) are often used for this kind of interaction – people asking questions and receiving answers -, there are some features that do set SE apart from forum/message board (MB) type platforms. In the following, I will sum up some of those features. While the (incomprehensive) list is inspired by the podcast, it does reflect my own opinions only … one of the latter being that SE is great technology.

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