I believe this is about NBMs built from the standard distribution. Good among others for dot-dot updates, where the users could just download updated modules, not the whole distro.
I think the current overall idea (based on ideas by many other people, like Jarda): -release the NBMs and the catalog as part of the convenience binaries (this will probably need a little tweaking) -have a (NetBeans 9.0-specific) URL setup on the netbeans-vm, like e.g.: http://netbeans-vm.apache.org/updates/9.0 which would do a redirect to the Apache release using: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?action=download&filename=<path> this should automatically redirect to mirrors. Not sure if we can fully test this without doing a release, but my plan for a near future was to change our continuous build (one of them) to produce the NBMs and then ask to have the redirect setup - then we could do at least some testing. Jan On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Geertjan Wielenga < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We need to nail down this one and I think the key blocker is that there are > different ideas about what this is about: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-330 > > The above is not about the Plugin Portal. > > If I understand it correctly, this is about where the NBMs (which ones? how > many? do we know?) and the related XML file (a.k.a. update center) will be > hosted. > > AFAIK, the XML file and the NBMs could be put onto our Apache NetBeans VM > just like Synergy: > > http://netbeans-vm.apache.org/synergy > > The key question remains, which NBMs are we talking about here, applicable > to the 9.0 release, I think. > > Thanks, > > Gj >
