Bug 492574 - Investigate automating update of plist.info file
Summary: Investigate automating update of plist.info file
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Releng (show other bugs)
Version: 4.6   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-Releng-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2016-04-27 12:29 EDT by David Williams CLA
Modified: 2016-04-27 12:31 EDT (History)
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Description David Williams CLA 2016-04-27 12:29:21 EDT 
See bug 491908 for what started this discussion. 

We do define some variables in the parent pom, "releaseName" and "releaseVersion". We then "copy" the about box "blurbs" using "filters" to fill in the values of ${releaseName} and ${releaseVersion" that exists in those blurb files. 

Something similar might work for the plist.info file. It is a bit more complicated, since the exact point it exists and the exact point that Tycho "recreates" it might make it tricky to "copy" at just the right time. 

But, might turn out to be easy.