Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Request for comment: Provide standard upd

[Eike Stepper <stepper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 15.03.2013 10:57, schrieb Ralf Sternberg:
> Great idea! Not only are p2 repositories not search-engine friendly,
> the fact that links to p2 repositories often lead to a 404 due to a
> missing index.html lets some users assume that "there is nothing".
> While it's possible to create index files manually, some kind of a
> uniform appearance would help users to recognize a p2 repository
> immediately. Ideally, I think an index.html should be generated
> together with the metadata files that is both search-engine and human
> readable.

+1

You may want to have a look at what we generate for our repositories: 
http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/cdo/drops/S20130205-0640

They're linked from http://www.eclipse.org/cdo/downloads .

Cheers
/Eike

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