How to setup updates on custom IDE built on intellij platform?
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Hi,
I'm in the process of building an IDE based on the intellij platform and I'm trying to allow users to update from within the IDE. I understand I have to setup an updates.xml on a website and put the url in the application info xml, which I've done. The part I dont understand is the patches. There is an attribute in application info xml called
patches="https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/"
This link returns access denied for me and I dont understand what should be here. So in conclusion, my question is, what do I put at the patches url?
Kind regards,
Alex
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patches property is used in the UpdateInstaller class as a target URL that stores jar files with patches. The patch URL may look like:
You may be interested in checking the following releases and patches listing: https://data.services.jetbrains.com/products/releases?code=IC
Thank you, that makes sense. My question now is, how are these patches generated? Do I have to create them somehow and upload them to the specified patch url or is there a system within intellij to do this?