[xwiki-devs] XEclipse release and update site

Dear all, the new version of XEclipse is almost ready and I am planning to release it in a week. In order to publish it through Eclipse's standard update mechanism I need to put an "update site"[1] somewhere (see also http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XECLIPSE-51) . I thought about different scenarios: 1) Put the update site directly in the SVN (like http://code.google.com/p/q4e/wiki/Installation) 2) Put the update site on http://maven.xwiki.org/ 3) Put the update site elsewhere. I don't think 1) is a good idea because we would put the plugin jars under version control, but it is nevertheless interesting because "publishing" a new version will consist in doing a simple commit, making the process more automatic and traceable[2] 2) is not a good idea because an update site has nothing to do with maven. 3) is ok but I don't know where "elsewhere" could be. So the idea is to have two update sites, one for "releases" (http://.../xeclipse/update) and one for snapshots (http://.../xeclipse/update/dev) where to put in a XEclipse builds. I know that this overlaps with the maven infrastructure, but this is what Eclipse-oriented people expect (see http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XECLIPSE-90) And probably 1) is a good solution. WDYT? -Fabio [1] An update site is simply a directory with a site.xml and all the plugin jars, published on the web. [2] Side-note about update sites. As far as I know there is no way for building them in an automatic way (unless a hackish, tricky, ant-based way). The Maven PDE plugin doesn't support it, and the artifacts generated by the maven build cannot be assembled together in an update site (at least not without a lot of tricky steps I am not fully aware of). So basically the safest way to generate an update site is to do it in the IDE and "scp -r" the result to the target location. By putting the update site in the SVN things would be easier, because once the update site is generated, a commit would publish it directly.