I did progress on this: I was able to move all the scripts to the "tools" folder; I didn't add the "bin" subfolder to it because the existing files in the "tools" folder are not used and can be removed: in this way we will have a "tools" folder containing all the platform dependent scripts. But now I need some help from Windows users:
could you please try to create a "startofbiz.bat" file in the "tools" folder with the following content: =========================================== echo off set OFBIZ_HOME=%0\..\..\ echo on cd /d %OFBIZ_HOME% "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -jar ofbiz.jar echo off =========================================== Then you should try to run it from the home folder: tools\startorfbiz.bat and from the tools folder: cd tools startorfbiz.bat Both should work fine: I already did this work for the sh files but I couldn't test the above mechanism for Windows. I would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks, Jacopo On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Prince Sewani wrote: > Well the 'bin' clashing with eclipse default is really a concern > to being with, the learning curve is yet steep, and with to dos of IDE's as > of now, > everyone is pretty much acquainted. Also in-case we change it to 'bin' in the > main folder, > then there'll be an additional set of documentation required for that to help > users on different Operating systems. > > Unless we go like opentaps (felt that on a few things) and then one is not > really able to use it (Just a comment No offense). > > > "tools/bin" sounds great, unless that also doesn't call of any other clash or > so. > > Regards > Prince > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alak...@gmail.com> > To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 4:13 PM > Subject: Re: "bin" folder for executable files/scripts > > bin is good enough. > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Jacques Le Roux > <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: >> Hi Jacopo, >> >> tools/bin sounds good to me >> >> Jacques >> >> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> >> >>> Thanks everyone for the valuable comments! >>> I am trying to finalize this thread: there seems to be consensus to move >>> all the executable scripts into a folder to keep things organized. >>> For the name of the folder: >>> * some of you think that the "bin" (as I originally suggested) should be >>> used because it is often used for this purpose >>> * some of you are worried that this could interfere with some commonly >>> used IDEs (e.g. Eclipse) that use the bin folder for output and need to be >>> configured to use a different standard name >>> >>> After reviewing what we have now in OFBiz I am wondering if we could use >>> the already existing "tools" folder; its current layout is: >>> tools/api-java16 >>> tools/src >>> >>> option a: add all the executables to tools/ folder directly >>> option b: create a subfolder tools/bin and add all the executables there >>> >>> What do you think? >>> >>> Jacopo >>> >>> On Feb 29, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: >>> >>>> Then we could recommend to name .bin for instance >>>> But I wonder if this will not be a source of problem for newbies... >>>> >>>> And also for Windows users, bin is not a standard name at all >>>> >>>> Jacques >>>> >>>> From: "Adrian Crum" <adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com> >>>>> >>>>> That's fine with me. We just need to update the Eclipse configuration >>>>> files. >>>>> >>>>> -Adrian >>>>> >>>>> On 2/29/2012 3:20 PM, J. Eckard wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I think that eclipse / eclipse users should have to accommodate the >>>>>> directory structure of OFBiz, not the other way around. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Feb 29, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks for the feedback! Any suggestion for the name of the folder? I >>>>>>> was hoping to use a "standard" name, that is why I initially proposed >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> "bin" folder... but since that is not an option we will have to think to >>>>>>> something else (unless we use the existing "tools" folder but I am not >>>>>>> sure >>>>>>> about the intended usage of that). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Jacopo >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Feb 27, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> +1 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Jacques >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> From: "Adrian Crum"<adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Sounds great, but don't use "bin" - that folder is created by >>>>>>>>> Eclipse and it is in the SVN ignore list. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> -Adrian >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 2/27/2012 7:10 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> The number of executable files (*.sh and *bat) in the OFBiz home >>>>>>>>>> folder is rather big: what if we create a "bin" folder and we move >>>>>>>>>> all of >>>>>>>>>> them there? In this way users will have a place where they will find >>>>>>>>>> all the >>>>>>>>>> executable files only and the main folder will be cleaner. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Jacopo >>> >>> >>>
