Re: Fiji personal update site: Description is not editable

Posted by dscho on Dec 19, 2013; 8:37pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Fiji-personal-update-site-Description-is-not-editable-tp5005948p5005951.html

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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