[News.eclipse.foundation] ??? Eclipse Download Sites Are Out of Synch ??

["Tony LaPaso" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

As you know, the Eclipse site provides links to many mirrors for
downloading the Eclipse platform
(http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php).

What's bad about this approach is that most of these sites do not
have the latest version of Eclipse. I see Eclipse v3.1 M3 was
released on Nov. 5th. Of all the mirrors I checked only "SunSITE
CEUR (Aachen)" had this version available. One site did not even
have any drops from 2004.

Not all sites have the same drops available. I think having all
these inconsistent mirrors is confusing.

Even the Eclipse home page does not indicate that v3.1M3 is
available. I wish there was a more consistent and reliable way
for communicating new releases and making them available.

Thanks