Hi Tim, There's several ASF projects out there already hosting eclipse plugins and the infrastructure team so far wasn't all that happy if I remember correctly. I think that the eclipse update mechanism doesn't properly support the use of multiple mirrors, resulting in a lot of bandwidth being taken up from the ASF hardware, and in general has rather broken HTTP support (always a thorn in the eye of the ASF, where a lot of people that helped design and implement HTTP do the system administration!) We should in general not take any kind of distribution publishing (which this pretty much is) lightly, and shouldn't use SVN as a "distribution location".
Please, let's not publish this SVN URL on the wiki or our website just yet. - LSD, otherwise happy to have Geir sort it all out :-) On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:17:56AM +0000, Tim Ellison wrote: > Nathan Beyer wrote: > > If there's not an appropriate or designated place for the Eclipse update > > site, you can always check it into SVN and just point Eclipse updater to the > > SVN ViewCVS URL. > > I've put the update site into our SVN here[1]. It's easy to move the > feature to another site if we want. > > That URL is a bit of a mouthful though, perhaps we need a redirect from > http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/updates ? > > (I'm assuming that most people know how to use an Eclipse update site to > install the plug-in.) > > As always, patches, enhancements, and comments most welcome. > > [1] > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/incubator/harmony/enhanced/tools/trunk/eclipse/org.apache.harmony.eclipse.site > > Regards, > Tim > > > > Another nice feature of the update sites is that you can point the feature > > URLs to any URL and you can redirect the plug-ins using the "archive" > > elements. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 4:39 PM > > To: harmony-dev > > Subject: [tools] Eclipse JRE support > > > > I've put the HARMONY-127 (Eclipse plug-in for Harmony JRE support) > > source code into SVN. Is there an appropriate Eclipse update site where > > we can host the built plug-in, or should I create one on the Harmony server? > > > > Regards, > > Tim > > > > -- > > Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > IBM Java technology centre, UK.
