[Tfug] Eclipse add-ons

[Leo Przybylski]

Oh sorry. I didn't realize sites had changed with p2. Looks like there
isn't a site.xml anymore which is what I was originally thinking
about.

Here's a document on creating a mirror
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Repository_Mirroring

If you want to know about how a site is to be structured or built, you
could browse it by using a user agent switcher. Most sites verify
against the eclipse user agent. If you switch to the eclipse user
agent, you can freely go to site urls to determine how the
contents.xml correspond to site structure. I would imagine it to be
intuitive though.

Leo

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
>
> On 6/6/2013 10:01 PM, Robert Hunter wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> alternatively, an understanding of the various details
>>> embedded in the archives themselves that would enable me to
>>> act AS IF i was the client.
>>
>>
>> http://goo.gl/rGPbp
>
>
> Yeah, I had pretty much sussed-out this just by examining the
> "archives" that Eclipse is happy opening vs. those that it
> chokes on (e.g., contents.jar and artifacts.jar -- containing
> contents.xml and artifacts.xml, respectively -- seem to be a
> necessary precondition for the archive to be recognized).
>
> Contents.xml appears to enumerate the contents (surprise!) of
> the archive, tagging each offering with what it "provides" as
> well as what it "requires".  Empirically, I've verified this
> corresponds with the commentary Eclipse provides during the
> plugin's installation.
>
> But, I haven't been able to get from there to a URL, etc. that
> I can manually access.  I.e., it appears (for at least *some*
> of these dependencies) that Eclipse must fetch the package
> itself.  (Then, why offer alternatives to allow the user to
> install from a local archive???)
>
> [N.B. Some packages can be located and downloaded manually.
> There doesn't seem to be any consistency, though...]
>
> <shrug>
>
> I'll take a peek at it later.  I'll be spending the night baking a
> cheesecake (sigh)
>
>
> --don
>
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