I suspect your network connectivity is too good :-) Here is an experiment I tried: Connected from Home with a Mobile Internet Connectivity of 230Kbps ( :-( that's the best Home connectivity I can get in my place) and tried downloading Geronimo Eclipse Plug-in by clicking on "Don't see your server listed" link. After about 25mins and 7.1MB of download volume Plug-in installation failed with a Network Connection Error. When I tried again (thank God, download restarted from where it last failed) it took another 25mins for an additional download volume of 7.8 MB with 3 restarts!
After this I tried downloading a zip of eclipse plug-in ( http://people.apache.org/dist/geronimo/eclipse/unstable/g-eclipse-plugin-2.0.0-v20070430.1413-deployable.zip) using a download accelerator. This time it took 50mins for 17MB of download volume to complete and there were no download errors. In addition being able to download a zip allows me to backup a copy of the setup for later use, which wouldn't be trivial if I use automatic download by IDE. We probably can recommend users to install via Eclipse update site, yet make available a zip of eclipse plug-in for direct download. What do you say? We probably can also work to reduce the size of Geronimo Eclipse Plug-in. - Shiva On 5/10/07, Lin Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just one comment here... When I last tried to download the geronimo eclipse plugin, it was not slow at all. I don't really see much difference of using the eclipse update manager vs. go to the site to download the zip file. I think the preferred way is to use the eclipse update site as it can install/update the feature and its dependencies automatically on the fly. Lin Shiva Kumar H R wrote: > A few observations I made as a User of Geronimo Eclipse Plug-in: > 1) Downloading Geronimo Eclipse Plugin from within the IDE (by clicking > on the "Don't see your server listed?" or by creating a new remote site > in the update manager) is too slow. > > It would save a lot of time if I can simply download a zip of Geronimo > Eclipse Plug-in say from > http://geronimo.apache.org/development-tools.html (similar to the way I > can download zips of most Eclipse Plug-ins from eclipse.org > <http://eclipse.org>). >
