Fiji personal update site: Description is not editable

[jumpfunky]

Dear list,

I'm currently set up an update site for more convenient updating of the
plugins developed in our work group. For most of the plugins, it works
very well.

However, one plugin includes the apache commons lib. This lib adds a
pom.xml to the META-INF directory of the plugin jar file. If I now try
to upload the jar file to my update site, there is already a description
which I can't edit:

"Description  (from pom.xml) :

  Commons Lang, a package of Java utility classes for the
  classes that are in java.lang's hierarchy, or are considered to be so
  standard as to justify existence in java.lang.
"

Is there a way to edit it anyway?

Cheers!
Thorsten

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[dscho]

Hi Thorsten,

On Thu, 19 Dec 2013, Thorsten Wagner wrote:

> I'm currently set up an update site for more convenient updating of the
> plugins developed in our work group. For most of the plugins, it works
> very well.
>
> However, one plugin includes the apache commons lib. This lib adds a
> pom.xml to the META-INF directory of the plugin jar file.

To be precise: this lib does not add a pom.xml to the META-INF directory
of the *plugin* jar file. It contains that pom.xml file itself.

Now, if you *include* all of the contents of apache-commons.jar, then you
also get this file.

But including the contents is a bad idea since you are prone to break
expectations about being able to upgrade individual components.

It is better to ship the apache-commons.jar in the jars/ directory via the
update site.

Incidentally, this also fixes your problem with the description because
your plugin will no longer have a pom.xml and hence you can specify your
own description in the updater.

Ciao,
Johannes

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