Leo Simons wrote: > 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,
Not sure what proper support you need. We can specify mirrors from the site description file. > 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!) Maybe we should take this discussion onto the infra list ... and fix / address concerns for all. > 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. I agree -- let's have a proper distribution site. Regards, Tim > - 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. > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
