Re: [tycho-user] old update sites

[Andreas Sewe <andreas.sewe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Blewitt wrote:
> You can use an older version of Eclipse to mirror the plug-in, but at
> this point if you come across an update site without p2 metadata it’s
> probably not a supported plug-in any more.

Sadly, that's not always true. FindBugs, with 9000+ Marketplace installs
per month, still uses an old-style update site. But hopefully that will
be fixed soon [1].

Anyway, my advice is: If the plugin is still supported, supply a patch
to the upstream project that makes the switch  to new-style update
sites. In the long run, this saves you (and others!) more effort than
setting up (and maintaining) a local, new-style mirror. But there is
good documentation on the doing just that [2] as well, if you want to go
down that road.

Hope that helps.

Andreas

[1] <https://sourceforge.net/p/findbugs/bugs/1301/>
[2]
<http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Additional_Tools#publish-features-and-bundles_goal>

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