| [cdt-dev] FW: CDT project popularity |
Thought I'd share this with you all. I don't mind getting beat up for this :) Cheers, Doug -----Original Message----- From: Eclipse WebMaster (Denis Roy) [mailto:webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 12:22 PM To: Doug Schaefer; Sebastien Marineau Subject: CDT project popularity You know your project is getting popular when the WebMaster starts bothering you to optimize your downloads... Congrats. On with my rant: The CDT Update manager site.xml at http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/eclipse3.1/site.xml doesn't use the mirrors facility. All the Update Manager downloads for CDT come to download.eclipse.org, and that doesn't scale. You can wrap your "features" around a "site" tag in the site.xml file. Below is a sample site.xml from the lepido project, and it uses the Find a Mirror to fetch a list of mirrors that have the Update content. You should be using something similar for CDT to spare our bandwidth. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <site mirrorsURL="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/l epido/update-site/&format=xml"> <description url="http://download.eclipse.org/technology/lepido/update-site/";> Lepido, Tools for Apache Cocoon </description> <feature url="features/org.eclipse.lepido_0.1.0.jar" id="org.eclipse.lepido" version="0.1.0"> <category name="lepido"/> </feature> <category-def name="lepido" label="Lepido, Tools for Apache Cocoon"/> </site> Using this URL, I spot 23 CDT mirrors. You could use this as your mirrorsURL attribute: http://eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/cdt/releases/eclipse3. 1/site.xml&format=xml&protocol=http Thanks for looking into this! Denis -- Eclipse WebMaster - webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx Questions? Consult the FAQ at http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Webmaster_FAQ View my status at http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/WebMaster