Re: [mylyn-dev] Request for help: connector discovery

[Steffen Pingel <steffen.pingel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> After some digging around I found
>> that VerifyUpdateSiteJob discards connectors with update sites without
>> content.jar file. My update site doesn't have P2 metadata, so it
>> doesn't show up :-(
>
> Yes, currently Mylyn discovery only includes features that are available
> from update sites that include P2 metadata.  I recall that there was a good
> reason for this, though I don't remember what it was.  Perhaps Steffen, Mik
> or Rob could comment on this.

Thanks for pointing that out Peter. We assumed that all connector
update sites would have P2 meta-data available but on second thought
it looks like it is still a common scenario to only provide a
site.xml. Since we don't have a technical driver for requiring
meta-data at this point I have opened this bug to loosen the
restriction:

277275: support update sites without P2 meta-data
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=277275

Note that that this policy may change in the future since the P2
meta-data allows more advanced dependency resolution and is generally
more efficient than using a site.xml which requires downloading all
features from an update site (unless a digest.zip is provided).

Steffen

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Steffen Pingel
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