Bug 639905 - No command line help available.
Summary: No command line help available.
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: eclipse
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Krzysztof Daniel
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-10-04 10:10 UTC by Mads Kiilerich
Modified: 2014-01-13 00:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-05-01 07:06:56 UTC
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Description Mads Kiilerich 2010-10-04 10:10:41 UTC
Fedora eclipse doesn't have a man page and recognizes neither -h, -help nor --help.

I would expect something like the content of http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/runtime-options.html to be easily available.

IIRC -h used to work.

eclipse-platform-3.6.0-3.fc14.i686

Comment 1 Alexander Kurtakov 2010-10-06 08:31:51 UTC
Hmm, I don't remember -h working. When was this?
According to upstream there is no man page because eclipse executable can be used to start different applications.

Comment 2 Severin Gehwolf 2010-10-06 13:17:52 UTC
With respect to man page, here are some related bugs:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=622925

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=291988 (It would be good if you could +1 on this)

Comment 3 Mads Kiilerich 2010-10-06 13:37:23 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Hmm, I don't remember -h working. When was this?

Ok, I guess you know, so that must be a combination of my bad memory and hopeful thinking ;-)

So please take this as a request from a naive user.

I think it is a fair expection that options like -debug -console -clean (taken from memory) should be available as man or in -h (or on an info page if you don't like your users ;-) )

(FWIW /me don't like "closed upstream" as long as there is an unresolved issue.)

Comment 4 Alexander Kurtakov 2010-10-06 13:53:43 UTC
I'm not closing bugs like this but I can't promise that I'll work on it too.

Comment 5 Alexander Kurtakov 2012-04-30 15:17:46 UTC
Chris, would you please check upstream and if there isn't such bug open one and close this one after that as we would definetely not work on this as part of fedora. The new Equinox console might have opened some possibilities for better user help.

Comment 6 Andrew Overholt 2012-04-30 18:22:31 UTC
The issue is that the upstream binary launcher can be used for RCP apps and many things so it's next to impossible to put IDE-specific information in there.  A upstream bug is:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=291988

Other related information is the list of bugs open with the launcher (none which contain a request to add "--help" output AFAICT):

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?list_id=1434740;classification=RT;query_format=advanced;component=Launcher;product=Equinox

and the list of runtime options:

http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fmisc%2Fruntime-options.html


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