Ed Merks

@sratz I assume this PR is ready to merge. I believe this comment is @jonahgraham's approval: https://github.com/eclipse-packaging/packages/pull/224#pullrequestreview-2363603379

If the artifact does not come in the form of an OSGi bundle then there will also be those who decide not to use it or cannot use it. You...

Indeed it might well be the case that the test needs to change its assumption.

Note that this works on Windows:   Are there any clues in the console? 

The log just makes it sound like some bundle was not included in the launch configuration. It looks like the leaf cause is this failure: ``` Unresolved requirement: Import-Package: org.apache.commons.io;...

So one very strange thing here is that Eclipse itself works fine, just not an RCP application. There is no clue or theory for how that is possible, and I...

FYI, to reproduce using the installer one can install **anything** with 17.0.10 or 21.0.2 which will also use that as the JRE in that installed IDE:   It just...

I'm not sure how on mac java is launched. I think it uses some library in the JDK/JRE rather than like the way java executable is used directly for a...

Note that the latest 17.x version is currently 17.0.3+7 though it's unlikely a bug in the JVM....

I assume this is the same problem as https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/158#issuecomment-2028049433 and that the workaround described in that issue still works.