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#1 Eclipse Software Updates Site
Would be nice to publish the updates Site on sf.net in project web space. http://java3d-eclipse.sourceforge.net/
I had it setup like that for a brief period of time when I first created the project, but then removed it after reading sourceforge.net documentation. My understanding is that it is against their rules.
If you understand differently, please explain.
From this site:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Plugging-into-SourceForge/sourceforge.html
If you want to host an update site using the FRS, the procedure is a bit more complex. The FRS uses mirror sites, so you will need to design your update site so that it obtains files from one mirror only. In addition, the FRS is a flat structure with a single directory per project. Therefore any plug-in and feature you release must have a unique name — you cannot have a feature jar that has the same name as a plug-in jar. You then need to make a release for each feature and plug-in jars to the FRS. Then you need to create an enhanced site.xml file manually. You can find a good example here http://eplug.sourceforge.net/site.xml with some explanations at the bottom of the eplug project home page http://eplug.sourceforge.net/, which uses that approach. With a bit more work, it should even be possible to take advantage of the Sourceforge mirrors.
Ups apparently eplug removed the repository from st.net
Update sites are necessary for target plattforms containing only update sites.
Update sites should work now, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=94940#c30
Please create one!