Hi Jacopo, Although I'm not a windows user but yes it works fine from the tools folder on windows.
Regards Prince ________________________________ From: Jacopo Cappellato <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 3:32 PM Subject: Re: "bin" folder for executable files/scripts Actually, the /d shouldn't be required: =========================================== echo off set OFBIZ_HOME=%0\..\..\ echo on cd %OFBIZ_HOME% "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -jar ofbiz.jar echo off =========================================== Thanks, Jacopo On Mar 23, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >
