I had unpacked the RTC eclipse client installer (RTC-Eclipse-Client-2.0.0.2M3-Win32-Local.zip) to a directory with a path that contained a blank ("C:\Download\RTC (Rational Team Concert)" - yes, there are people who give their directories telling names!).

When subsequently trying to install I had the mysterious effect, that clicking the launchpad.exe did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Only digging into and analyzing this (and specifically uncommenting the @echo off) in line 1 of "...\rtc\launchpad\launpad.bat" yielded the reason: some command line in that .bat file isn't properly quoting path arguments and thus the blanks split the command line into fragments yielding an - alas, hidden - error message and an abort of the batch file.

Shouldn't such flaws be a thing of the past? I mean, it should been well known by now (and part of testing!) that there are OSses out there that allow users to specify pathnames containing blanks and hence all code should cater for that and arguments and paths need to be always properly quoted!

Is there some bugzilla or someone's ear, where I can report that, so that it gets fixed in future versions?

Michael