Please do.  I think it would be advantageous to build the final IvyDE 2.1.0
with this fix as well.

Jon

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, all the silly questions notwithstanding, I was actually able to
> muddle through this.  ;)  As it turns out, the Pulse-managed Eclipse
> installations I've been using, even after adding Eclipse plugin development
> plugins, are apparently not suitable as baseLocations for the updatesite's
> buildfile.  After downloading a plugin-development-target Eclipse
> installation and using that I was able to to create the optimized artifacts,
> and was able to use a filesystem-based updatesite from there to verify that
> the Pulse tool is now able to recognize the packed features jars.  So does
> anyone oppose my committing my changes on trunk so that the Hudson builds
> will also pack these jars?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Jon Schneider wrote:
>
>  Matt,
>>
>> Just dump the contents of the dist directory into a folder (e.g.
>> updatesite)
>> in any http server of your choice.  That's it.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi, Jon.  I realize from the text below that the problem here is a bug
>>> with
>>> this other tool, and believe me, I have reported it.  But rank hath its
>>> privileges, and being in a position to affect the IvyDE updatesite Hudson
>>> build I am inclined to selfishly do so.  If it is that big a deal I could
>>> use a locally staged updatesite to begin with, but this still brings to a
>>> head the problem I have which actually prompted my original mail:  I am
>>> not
>>> clear on how to set up my own local updatesite.  ;)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 3, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Jon Schneider wrote:
>>>
>>>  From the Eclipse documentation concerning the pack200="true" attribute
>>> we
>>>
>>>> have on our updatesite:
>>>>
>>>> "This lets the Update Manager know that the site contains packed jars,
>>>> and
>>>> it will look for a .jar.pack.gz file beside the .jar file that it would
>>>> normally download. If the .jar.pack.gz file is found, it will be
>>>> downloaded
>>>> and unpacked, otherwise the .jar file is downloaded as normal."
>>>>
>>>> This indicates to me that a reasonable local test would be to delete all
>>>> but
>>>> the packed jars from a locally staged update site and verify that the
>>>> Update
>>>> Manager will pick up the feature jar correctly.
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  My original email seems to have been lost; please see below:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 3, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Matt Benson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  For fun I'll include the text of my patch file between --- and --- :
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  [SNIP]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  ---
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Matt Benson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Apparently some tools (in particular I'm back to dealing with
>>>>>> Genuitec
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Pulse) want not only plugins but features jars to be packed.  I can
>>>>>>> pretty
>>>>>>> well see how to add this to the updatesite build, but I don't have a
>>>>>>> whole
>>>>>>> lot of idea what is required for me to test my changes locally.  Can
>>>>>>> either
>>>>>>> of you guys, Nicolas/Jon, help me with that?  I'm hoping to do it all
>>>>>>> on Mac
>>>>>>> OSX Tiger w/ Java 1.5....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Matt
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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