Hi Neil, very thanks for the detailed explainations. I have not completely understood what is the best way to deal with these changes in my netbeans-platform-and-ant-based applications which also affected from the changes.
One of my applications is something like an specific IDE for a specific DSL. So I use a lot of modules of the netbeans-update center and there are also dependencys on such modules. So it looks that a lot of work is needed to update it ... > We were mainly considering legacy Ant > build downloads rather than projects registering the UCs themselves > though. Is there an example how to ant-download eg. TextMate module? Where are the builds of the modules we have added with the netbeans-update-center? > > > The NBM should be on Maven, so a custom update.xml could be produced > > > to download from there? > > > > The problem is that I need the `update.xml` sooner than my module is > > installed. > > Well, I was thinking more that a useful task could be an update.xml > that is generated from and points to the Maven artefacts. That could > happen here, it could happen elsewhere (eg. on the IGV side). > Applications would still need to register it though. > > > PS: another problem is 3rd party update center - IGV "inherits" it from > > NetBeans. Those NBMs are be available, but their dependencies may not - > > because the standard update.xml is empty... That is exactly the some with some of my netbeans applications too. best regards Oliver
