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Re: [p2-dev] Using remote zip'd repos in p2
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+1. Remote update site zip support would be teh axxesome.
What about if the metadata was optionally provided as a second (and
third?) downloadable jar, like md5sums are?
Thus, user inputs this into p2 UI:
http://eclipse.org/equinox-sdk.zip
p2 interprets it as:
jar:http://eclipse.org/equinox-sdk.zip!/
and corrects it in the UI.
Then it fetches
http://eclipse.org/equinox-sdk.p2.jar*
cracks THAT open to reveal content.xml, artifacts.xml, and can therefore
do the whole site introspection w/o having to dl a few megs of zip first
- no more to fetch than with an unpacked update site today.
Or, if you only need one of the two metadata files (I've no idea), then
you could instead fetch:
http://eclipse.org/equinox-sdk.content.jar or equinox-sdk.artifacts.jar**
Thoughts?
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* alternate filename ideas:
equinox-sdk.mjar
equinox-sdk.meta.jar
("Never meta.jar I didn't like.")
** more variations:
equinox-sdk.ajar
equinox-sdk.cjar
("Your repo is ajar.")
("Close, but no cjar!")
:)
Ian Bull wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Do we have plans to support repos in the following form:
>
> jar:http://eclipse.org/equinox-sdk.zip!/
>
> By shipping all these "zip'd repos", it seems like it would be a good
> idea to let people craft their targets (or install their software)
> directly from Eclipse without first D/L the zips first. This appears to
> "almost work", but it looks like we set a timeout for the content.jar
> file. If we can download the repo, crack it open, and read the
> content.jar before the timeout, then we're golden. But if not, then all
> bets are off.
>
> Does anyone have thoughts on this?
>
> cheers,
> ian
>
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