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Bug 128348

Summary: GEF should have its own project update site.
Product: [Tools] GEF Reporter: David Williams <david_williams>
Component: GEF-Legacy GEF (MVC)Assignee: Tom Macdougall <tmacdoug>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: P3 CC: steveshaw
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description David Williams CLA 2006-02-17 00:23:44 EST 
For the sake of consistency, and the ever growing complexities of updates, I think GEF should start to have its own update site, as other projects do. 

For example, 

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/updates

Naturally the "old" releases could stay where they are for a few years, but 
to move forward, I think even projects as important as GEF should not have to 
depend on being in the "eclipse directory". 

This not only effects where jars reside, but also the implanted discovery and update URL's in the feature.xml's. 

See also 

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Callisto_Coordinated_Update_Sites
Comment 1 Pratik Shah CLA 2006-02-17 16:50:16 EST 
This would mean that GEF cannot be discovered unless the client knows the URL to the update site.  The default discovery process checks the Eclipse.org update site.
Comment 2 David Williams CLA 2006-02-20 13:07:49 EST 
(In reply to comment #1)
> This would mean that GEF cannot be discovered unless the client knows the URL
> to the update site.  The default discovery process checks the Eclipse.org
> update site.
> 

This is changing in Eclipse 3.2. The Eclipse Platform Feature will include a 
Callisto update site, which should be the "general" discovery site. The idea is leave the Eclipse Project as the Eclipse Project ... and not the home for everyone else that they happen to agree to include. 

Plus, besides discovery, the update site is where GEF should put its "fix packs", etc., so that could/should be done independently of sending files to Sonia and Kim!
Comment 3 Tom Macdougall CLA 2006-03-02 14:41:18 EST 
The GEF milestones update site has been made available:
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/milestones/update-site
Comment 4 Steven R. Shaw CLA 2006-03-02 14:52:23 EST 
Tom - we should create another bugzilla for the release update site...
Comment 5 Steven R. Shaw CLA 2006-03-02 14:52:44 EST 
Tom - we should create another bugzilla for the release update site...