Re: [spaces-dev] An opportunity for Spaces

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Henrik Lindberg wrote:
> Thomas, are you suggesting that there should be two different ways to
> publish? One "structured" and one "flat"?
>
>   
I think we should consider it, yes.

> When we discussed this earlier we came up with the design to have a flag for
> the publishing space that denotes if it supports "nestedFolders" (i.e.
> structure), and that publishing then should zip non single file publishing.
>
> I think it would be much cleaner if a space could provide both a structured
> and a flat area (supplying one of them is mandatory). I suppose we want the
> new "flat" area to also be available in TEST and PRODUCTION flavor.
>
>   
I agree. This is a clean and simple way of doing it.

- thomas


> - henrik
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Thomas Hallgren
> Sent: torsdag 10 januari 2008 12:37
> To: Developer discussions for the Spaces project
> Subject: Re: [spaces-dev] An opportunity for Spaces
>
> Indeed. This also highlights another aspect of publishing. A "downloads" 
> page is typically designed for zipped archives and such and hence, it's 
> flat as a pancake. In case of update sites, such a page is suitable for 
> publishing archived sites. The actual update site however, requires a 
> folder structure. In this particular case, this guy could probably 
> "publish" by using a folder in SVN that he tags. The SVN is, after all, 
> accessible using normal URL's (if it is public, that is).
>
> Question is, should we support two types of publishing in spaces? One 
> traditional "downloads" and one for structured storage? We can do both 
> using EFS of course, but the Space Provider might want to see them as 
> different things and the user might want to use both. What do you think?
>
> - thomas
>
> Bjorn Freeman-Benson wrote:
>   
> > http://www.norio.be/blog/2008/01/eclipse-update-site-google-code
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