I forgot: the advantage of the redirect in netbeans-vm is that when 9.0 is superseded with a later version, we should delete 9.0 from dist/mirrors.Tthe release would then be available through archive. And we could simply change the redirect from mirrors to archive. The disadvantage is that we will need to keep the URL hardcoded in the IDE working.
Jan On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Geertjan Wielenga < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Yes, that's excellent and a clear way forward. > > I suppose that prior to the final release, we could do an rc release, which > would include this functionality that you're describing here so that we can > try it out prior to the release. > > Gj > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Jan Lahoda <lah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 < > > geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> 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 > > > > > >
