I want to create an Eclipse installer which installs an Eclipse that doesn't show a welcome page.
This blog post suggests to create a settings file with a ResourceCreationTask:
<setupTask
xsi:type="setup:ResourceCreationTask"
id="rtt.suppress.welcome.page"
content="eclipse.preferences.version=1\nshowIntro=false"
targetURL="${workspace.location|uri}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.prefs"
encoding="UTF-8">
<description>Suppress showing of the Welcome page.</description>
</setupTask>
The author then adds a comment that this leads to a problem because ${workspace.location} is undefined during installation. The suggested solution however is to replace ${workspace.location} with ${install.location}/ws. That would create a file in a subdirectory of the install location and doesn't help unless this location happens to be the workspace.
Another suggestion is to targetURL="${osgi.instance.area|file}.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.prefs". That doesn't help either.
Unfortunately I was unable to find a documentation on which variables can be used with Oomph.
