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Some members of our community, especially newer members, may be confused by the apparently broken links to the update sites on the downloads page. I recommend either including a index page in the update sites, or adding some words above the links. Maybe a link to the help might be useful as well. http://help.eclipse.org/helios/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-124.htm http://help.eclipse.org/helios/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-127.htm FWIW, it might be nice to create a "website" component for these sorts of bugs.
As a side note, I wonder if download.eclipse.org should just show directory listings by default... to make things less confusing for all members of Eclipse community, not just m2e users ;-)
(In reply to comment #1) > As a side note, I wonder if download.eclipse.org should just show directory > listings by default... to make things less confusing for all members of > Eclipse community, not just m2e users ;-) Maybe. But isn't it the case that the links are basically meaningless, anyway? Let's say we turn on directory listings... somebody clicks the link and is given a directory listing. Then what?
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > As a side note, I wonder if download.eclipse.org should just show directory > > listings by default... to make things less confusing for all members of > > Eclipse community, not just m2e users ;-) > > Maybe. But isn't it the case that the links are basically meaningless, anyway? > > Let's say we turn on directory listings... somebody clicks the link and is > given a directory listing. Then what? Maybe not directory listings... My point is, currently all eclipse projects have to do something to make update sites less confusing for new(er) users. I think it would be nice if download.eclipse.org rendered update sites as something more cheerful than 404-File-not-Found by default. It would benefit all eclipse projects and you wouldn't need to chase all of us individually.
I agree. The current 404 page does actually give some information about what might be wrong and suggests that maybe the link is for an update site (it even gives a link to the help documentation). I'm not sure what more we can do.
Funnily enough I wrote something to generate a website from a p2 repository that has a layout similar to the Install Software page, I had planned to hook into the p2 import/export feature. Its not quite finished but I might get time over the weekend.
*** Bug 354577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 359055 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This was worked around by not using <a href=blah> in m2e download page... long time ago. I still believe this is a problem with eclipse.org download infra, but I am not fighting this battle.
Moved to https://github.com/eclipse-m2e/m2e-core/issues/
