[wtp-dev] Update site for WTP 1.0 is now declared available

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Committers, (and friends of WTP) 

I've just announced our update site
on our newsgroup (text attached). 
For those of you not familar with it,
please view and/or read 

http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/index.html

and give it a try sometime.  This
will become more and more important 
as Eclipse project interdependancies
become larger and more complex. 

In fact, we are breaking a little new
ground with this update site and is 
a teenie tiny prototype of what might
become part of the Collisto 
update strategy. 

Its the first I know of that that a
site has used archive tags to 
"point" to prereqs on eclipse,
to make it easier for new users to 
just go to one site ... well, almost
one ... still have to start with 
the base Eclipse 3.1.1 for now. 

This makes the site.xml file look complicated
http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/site.xml
But would be easy to automate and/or
improve "dynamic look ups" 
in the future. 

As always, constructive feedback welcome.





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While we've found a couple of bugs and
issues with updating WTP,
our official update site for WTP 1.0
is now available at
 
http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/
 
Before pointing your Update Manager
to the update site URL,
be sure to point your webbrowser to
it first, and read the
section on "known issues".
We've discovered a couple of glitches
in the system and workarounds are documented
there, at
 
http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/index.html
 
As always, let us know how it goes (and/or
open bugs/feature requests that
reflect your experiences).
 
Thanks