Yes, that's excellent and a clear way forward. I suppose that prior to the final release, we could do an rc release, which would include this functionality that you're describing here so that we can try it out prior to the release.
Gj On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Jan Lahoda <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe this is about NBMs built from the standard distribution. Good > among others for dot-dot updates, where the users could just download > updated modules, not the whole distro. > > I think the current overall idea (based on ideas by many other people, like > Jarda): > -release the NBMs and the catalog as part of the convenience binaries (this > will probably need a little tweaking) > -have a (NetBeans 9.0-specific) URL setup on the netbeans-vm, like e.g.: > http://netbeans-vm.apache.org/updates/9.0 > which would do a redirect to the Apache release using: > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?action=download&filename=<path> > > this should automatically redirect to mirrors. > > Not sure if we can fully test this without doing a release, but my plan for > a near future was to change our continuous build (one of them) to produce > the NBMs and then ask to have the redirect setup - then we could do at > least some testing. > > Jan > > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Geertjan Wielenga < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > We need to nail down this one and I think the key blocker is that there > are > > different ideas about what this is about: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-330 > > > > The above is not about the Plugin Portal. > > > > If I understand it correctly, this is about where the NBMs (which ones? > how > > many? do we know?) and the related XML file (a.k.a. update center) will > be > > hosted. > > > > AFAIK, the XML file and the NBMs could be put onto our Apache NetBeans VM > > just like Synergy: > > > > http://netbeans-vm.apache.org/synergy > > > > The key question remains, which NBMs are we talking about here, > applicable > > to the 9.0 release, I think. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gj > > >
