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Re: [egit-dev] Auto-discovery of EGit features when installing other features

The content of category.xml is identical to site.xml.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Sewe [mailto:andreas.sewe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 1:22 AM
To: Konstantin Komissarchik
Cc: 'EGit developer discussion'
Subject: Re: [egit-dev] Auto-discovery of EGit features when installing
other features

Hi Konstantin,

> You want the associate sites feature.

haven't heard of those before. Thanks for the tip.

> 1. Create a file called associate-sites.xml with content as follows:
> 
> <associateSites>
>   <associateSite url='...'/>
>   <associateSite url='...'/>
> </associateSites>
> 
> 2. In your site.xml file that's used when generating the repo, add the 
> following attribute to the root "site" element.
> 
> associateSitesURL="associate-sites.xml"
> 
> This will generate the repo metadata such that when you the user adds 
> your repo, the associate repos are immediately registered, yet it will 
> not contribute features to your repo listing like a composite repo.

do you know whether this is supported by Eclipse Tycho (which uses
category.xml instead of site.xml, AFAIK)?

Best wishes,

Andreas

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