[eclipse-dev] Eclipse Committers: we now have a specific "target file" f

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I wanted to be sure this message "got
out" to everyone since might impact you, committers.  
We now have a "PDE target file"
in our Tycho/Maven builds where we name specific repositories and pre-req
versions for our builds. [1]

This is important since it makes our
builds more reproducible, especially in the long run, as versions of pre-reqs
change, where we won't always want to "get the latest" version
of something, such as from Orbit. 

It is significant to all committers
though, since if you add a new "prereq" to your manifest.mf file,
it won't be picked up automatically as before, but instead you'll have
to open a bug in releng and have it added to the target file ... for current
version, see 
http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator.git/tree/eclipse.platform.releng.prereqs.sdk/eclipse-sdk-prereqs.target
(You should also, please, open a bug
to have a prerequisite removed from the list, if you stop using it). 

Another "up side" though is
that in your IDE, you should able to use this file as a regular, shared
"PDE target runtime" so you will "get" the non-platform
pre-reqs added without necessarily installing the exact version of Eclipse,
as your development environment, that you are developing for (at least
in some cases). This might be helpful in other scenarios, such as if you
are "considering" moving to a different version of a pre-req,
you can make a local change in PDE target to do local, initial testing.


While I've mentioned this in status
meetings, thought I'd send this note to be sure everyone knew about this
change.
 
Thanks, 

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=422366