Re: [platform-webdav-dev] It's time to put it in the SDK

[Michael Valenta <Michael_Valenta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed,

I'm glad to hear that the FTP/WebDAV
support is working well for you. I must point out though that there are
many for which it does not work well, one reason being the large number
of FTP server types with their own file listing format. Also, these plugins
lack a test suite which would need to be created as well. But, by all means,
log a bug report against Platform Team so all interested parties can track
this issue and add their comments.

I personally do not feel that the FTP/WebDAV
support should be part of the SDK. I think they should live somewhere where
the contributors to the project have a vested interest in the use of FTP/WebDAV.
This would allow those that use the plugin to maintain it as well. There
are very few users of these plugins on the Eclipse Platform team so it
is a poor home for these plugins. I would suggest that the WebTools project
would be a better home since that is an area where FTP/WebDAV (and possibly
a general deployment API) will be an intregal piece.

On a side note, as an RCP user, you
may be interested in the refactoring that has begun in order to make FTP/WebDAV
usable in an RCP application (i.e. independant of IResource). The new plugins
do not yet have an official home in dev.eclipse.org but you can access
them through the following URL.

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-vcm-home/plugins/target/target-project-sets/readme.html

Michael

"Ed Burnette" <Ed.Burnette@xxxxxxx>
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17/08/2004 09:46 AM

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Subject	[platform-webdav-dev] It's time to put it in the SDK

I'd like to request FTP/WebDav be incorporated into
the 3.1 Eclipse SDK and the separate download be removed. In the past the
argument was that it wasn't as well tested or up to the quality standards
of the rest of the SDK, but it has been working great for me and others
for a couple of years.

There are too many separate packages on the download page so this would
help a little to reduce clutter there (and I'm tired of downloading it
over and over with each build :). If this needs a bugzilla entry opened
I'll be happy to do that.
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