HTTP access to files on bazaar-vcs.org?

[Nicholas Allen]

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Hi John,

Seeing as my plug-in is so small (about 40 Kb) and is only a few files I
think it might be best if we just upload them to a place on
bazaar-vcs.org. Even if we just put the XML files there they would have
to be updated just as often so it wouldn't save any hassle (the XML
files would change for each release so they can't just point to the
latest builds somewhere else).

How should we go about this? Should I send you a tar.gz file with the
site structure?

Cheers,

Nick

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Nicholas Allen wrote:
>> The file size is about 30kb at the moment - so pretty small! AFAIK an
>> Eclipse update site is just a dumb file store with XML files that
>> describe the updates. I'm not sure if it's possible to have the XML
>> files point to other sites where the real files are. I'm still very
>> new to Eclipse plug-in development.
> 
>> Would it be possible to create a sub-domain that was chrooted? eg
>> qbzr-eclipse.bazaar-vcs.org. That way I could upload the files there
>> and not be able to affect any other files on the server.
> 
>> Nick
> 
> 
> The sysadmins tend to be rather restrictive, so I would not expect to get
> access for a non-employee. It probably could be done, just difficult. (For
> example, most of those machines are fully firewalled from accessing ssh or
> http on any other machine.)
> 
> The problem I see, is that wouldn't they need to install qbzr, and possibly
> other dependencies? And possibly update them at appropriate times? It seems
> like there is quite a bit more involved than just updating the small plugin
> you have...
> 
> John
> =:->
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