I am preparing a release of my RCP product which will use an updated eclipse platform. It is distributed as a packaged setup.exe and, when installed, is set up to use a standard workspace location. The first time it is run, the users will be warned that the workspace was written with an older version.
As a large proportion of my users are not very tech-savvy, they will not know what a workspace is or what to do with the warning. Many will call the IT Hotline.
I want to avoid this message and force the acceptance of the update of the workspace without any warnings.
Is there a way to suppress this message?
Assuming you are using the standard Eclipse Application the version check is done by org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication in the checkValidWorkspace method.
This is an internal class so you are not really supposed to extend it. If you decide to ignore that you could define your own application specifying a class that extends IDEApplication and uses a different checkValidWorkspace