[pde-dev][api-tools] Remote snapshot repository support

[Barys Dubauski <bdubausk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We'd like to have a snapshot repository
located on a dedicated web server. My initial attempt to use this approach
with latest version of PDE API Tools failed. 

Q1) Is the remote repository support
not there or am I doing something wrong? 
Q2) Is such support in plans at all?

====================== More details
on what I tried so far =========================

1) Set repository location to my remote
location in the control file to http://myrepository.xyz.com:

        <repository
location="http://myrepository.xyz.com"
type="http"/>

2) I also tried to set this location
value in the "Compare APIs" dialog:

3) I debugged the validation code which
currently expects only File.isDirectory() to be true for the repository
location:

package
org.eclipse.pde.api.tools.ui.internal;

public
class
Validate {

        static
public
boolean
folder(String dir) {
         
      if
(dir == null
|| dir.length() == 0)
         
              return
false;
         
      File file = new
File(dir);
         
      return
file.isDirectory();
        }





-Barys Dubauski
IBM Rational SWG