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Specifying dependend update sites to one's own [message #60444]

Mon, 11 May 2009 09:20

Robert Wloch

Messages: 109
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hello everyone,

currently I'm creating a feature project to some Plug-ins that depend on
features provided by third party update sites. I'm looking for a way
allowing the end user to only check my feature in the update manager and
the dependend update site gets visited by the update manager transparently
to the user.

Now, in the feature editor I found under "Information" the "Sites to
Visit" tab and added the depended update site there:
<url>
<discovery label="Object Teams Updates"
url="http://www.objectteams.org/distrib/otdt-updates-1.2"/>
</url>

But when I try to install my feature, the other update site is not
visited. Is this a bug, or is "Sites to Visit" not the right way to do it?
I'm using Eclipse 3.4.2.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re: Specifying dependend update sites to one's own [message #597390 is a reply to message #60444]

Wed, 13 May 2009 15:53

Eric Rizzo

Messages: 3070
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Robert Wloch wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> currently I'm creating a feature project to some Plug-ins that depend on
> features provided by third party update sites. I'm looking for a way
> allowing the end user to only check my feature in the update manager and
> the dependend update site gets visited by the update manager
> transparently to the user.
>
> Now, in the feature editor I found under "Information" the "Sites to
> Visit" tab and added the depended update site there:
> <url>
> <discovery label="Object Teams Updates"
> url="http://www.objectteams.org/distrib/otdt-updates-1.2"/>
> </url>
>
> But when I try to install my feature, the other update site is not
> visited. Is this a bug, or is "Sites to Visit" not the right way to do
> it? I'm using Eclipse 3.4.2.

In your site.xml you can specify an "associate sites" URL that lists
other sites to use for installing dependencies. The DTD and some
explanation can be found here:
http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/update_sitemap.html

For an example, see this update site:
http://downloads.skywayperspectives.org/builder/updates/site .xml and
also the URL that its associateSitesURL points to.

Hope this helps,
Eric

[Updated on: Wed, 27 June 2012 02:57]

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