On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Steffen Pingel
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steffen.pingel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 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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