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Cedric Reichenbach
Cedric Reichenbach

Reputation: 9319

Eclipse plugin update site as zip archive

I've created an update site for my plugin using this tutorial. My update site works perfectly fine when installing from the folder, but when I put it into a zip and try to install "from archive", eclipse seems to treat it as a jar file.

Is there an option to correctly distribute a plugin as zip file?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3337

Answers (1)

Andrew Eisenberg
Andrew Eisenberg

Reputation: 28757

It looks like you are creating an old-style update site (ie- pre- Eclipse 3.4 using site.xml and not using p2).

You need to generate p2 metadata for your update site. Take a look at this tutorial for the simplest way to create a p2-aware update site:

http://www.vogella.com/articles/EclipseP2Update/article.html

p2 is the Eclipse provisioning system and it is the component that is used to find and install plugins and features into Eclipse.

Upvotes: 1

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