Re: [ajdt-dev] AJDT website changes

[pope <alexandru.popescu@xxxxxxxxx>]

[quote Matt Chapman::on 12/16/2004 3:21 PM]
> Hi everyone,
>
> There have been a couple of changes with the AJDT website:
>
> I've rearranged the download page to hopefully make it a little clearer 
> which build is which. Instead of the table for different Eclipse versions, 
> which had become rather complex, the focus is now on the different types 
> of AJDT builds: release builds, milestone builds, and development builds.
>
> The download links to the zip file distributions now go through the 
> eclipse.org mirroring system, so you get a list of mirrors which have that 
> file. Only a few mirror sites pick up our files, but hopefully that will 
> increase, and just having those few is still a big help. The exception is 
> the development builds, which I haven't converted to use the mirror 
> service, because they all have the same name, so you wouldn't know if you 
> were getting the latest one or not.
>
> Thanks to the eclipse webmaster, we also have a new website repository, 
> that doesn't use ViewCVS. I've moved the site over, and it seems to be 
> working okay - shout if you find any broken links. The advantages of this 
> new setup are that we can use PHP if we want, and also we have much nicer 
> URLs. For example, the download page is now:
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/download.html
>
> instead of:
>
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/~checkout~/ajdt-home/download.html
>
>
> I've also put all the New & Noteworthy docs in the new location for easy 
> reference. So instead of:
>
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/~checkout~/org.eclipse.ajdt/AJDT1.2src/org.eclipse.ajdt.ui/doc/whatsnew120M2/newnoteworthy.html
>
> We have:
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/whatsnew120M2/
>
> The other ones are there too:
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/whatsnew120M1/
> http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/whatsnew1112/
> http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/whatsnew1111/
>
> Note that some web browsers can be reluctant to reload the frame of the 
> new main page, so you may need to clear the cache first.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt.
Excellent new organization! A single remark: it would be very nice if the Development builds would 
include either in their name or just on the download page the timestamp. I have found myself 
downloading many times the same jar (sometimes my memory is very short :-) ).

:pope