Thanks, Erik. It makes sense to me to have the update site under the dist/ directory, since it is a kind of distribution.
I see there was an update to the page http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html about a month ago which added the information that incubator podling releases *must* be on http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/---podlingname--- So I'll make our update site have the form: www.a.o/dist/incubator/uima/.... I see in geronimo/eclipse/updates/plugins the jars for the plugins, plus the .asc, md5, and .sha files. How are the .asc, md5, .sha files used? Does the Eclipse update-site "signing" mechanism interface with these files? By the way, I looked at www.a.o/dist/incubator, and it appears that the incubator tree has not yet been set up (I get a URL Not Found). Am I looking in the wrong spot, or have there been no incubator releases since this policy change? -Marshall Erik Abele wrote: > On 29.11.2007, at 22:41, Marshall Schor wrote: > >> In our next release of Apache UIMA from the incubator, we would like to >> include an additional packaging of some of our Eclipse tooling as an >> Eclipse "update site". This is a location, reachable via http, which >> Eclipse can use to download Eclipse plugins. Doing this solves a >> long-standing complaint because this method does version / dependency >> checking for other needed Eclipse plugins. >> >> Several projects at Apache make use of Eclipse update sites; all of them >> (I think) host them off of their project web sites. This is what we >> would like to do. > > Off of their project web sites? Hmm, I'd suggest to do it like > Geronimo and use your /dist/ area: > > http://www.apache.org/dist/geronimo/eclipse/updates/ > > and also tie it into the current mirroring system; for an example see > site.xml at that location, esspecially the <site mirrorsURL="..."> in > there which refers to [1] and which takes care of delivering the > locations of the currently available mirrors... > > Cheers, > Erik > > [1] http://geronimo.apache.org/devtools/geronimo-eclipse-update--xml.cgi > for the source see > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/site/trunk/docs/devtools/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
