Ate Douma <ate@douma.nu> wrote on 08/03/2004 06:26:50 AM:
> What I also would like to see is a new site download tgz as at the
company I
> work doesn't have internet access at the work place.
> We now use our own local update site.
> The current site zip though still contains the invalid feature
definitions with
> the embedded " inside the id attribute:
> id="org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.win32"0.9.12"Subclipse".
> I already posted a request in the user list if the site tgz could be
fixed but
> received no response on it yet.
>
> I've already corrected it myself for now but needed other corrections
also for
> which I like to ask if these could be made to the official release so we
don't
> have to do those again next time.
>
> The whole idea of the site tgz is allowing it to be used offline using
your own
> local update site.
> But, the site.xml and the feature.xml definitions still contain update
url
> definitions pointing back to http://subclipse.tigris.org/update. As
result of
> these, after an initial installation eclipse will try to look for
updates there
> the next time (leading to irritating error dialogs).
> As far as I see it this is not needed at all. Can't those update url
definitions
> not just be removed from the site.xml and the feature.xml (as I had to
do myself).
>
> By default, eclipse will search for the plugins etc. relative from the
site.xml
> location which still be http://subclipse.tigris.org/update if updating
online,
> or from our local update site as we use it.
> Thus, removing those update url definitions doesn't bring anything other
than
> requiring manual hacking if you need to use your own update site.
> Only when an update site has to be moved like it was from looney to
tigris a few
> weeks ago this *is* a useful feature I think.
>
I do not think this is true. If it is, then it is a new change that I
have missed. If you do not supply an update site URL in your feature.xml
then Eclipse will not check for updates for that plugin. You would always
have to do it manually.
Mark
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Received on Tue Aug 3 23:11:10 2004