| Re: [tycho-user] where is Tycho feature hosted ? |
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On 08/20/2012 05:18 PM, Cristiano
Gavião wrote:
I'm seeing lot of repository using a version in the url, as the one you have sent me.in that case "juno" is more or less the version. But juno is an aggregated repo made of several features coming from several projects, so it's not numeric. There is a big advantage in putting version in repository URL, it makes easier to consume and track previous and future release of a product, and it makes repository URL predictable. But it is often useful, when using a version in repo URL, to put a symlink or a copy of the repository to a fixed url for the latest version (example, having /1.0 /1.1 /1.2 /2.0 ... for each version and /latest pointing to the latest version of the repo - here /2.0 - and updating latest on each new release). There are a lot of places where this has been discussed, without concluding to a specification/convention: * http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cbi-dev/msg00261.html * https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=377111 * https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=331385 * probably other mailing-lists... But this really depends on whether you can force consumers to update, whether you need to keep previous versions, how often you ship your repository, whether you have several "qualities" (snapshot, milestone, release...) for your repositories that do not target the same users... There does not seem to be single best solution for all use-cases. Cheers, |