| Re: [equinox-dev] Fw: [Bug 214801] [api tools] consider Export-Package as API |
You need to, as part of the release process, use tooling, like japitools, to examine each package for changes, including non-backwards compatible changes. Then, at the end of the release, the package and bundle version numbers can be properly increased. We do this in the OSGi release process.
BJ Hargrave
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----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Watson
Sent: 01/11/2008 01:45 PM
To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] Fw: [Bug 214801] [api tools] consider Export-Package as API
Without tooling this will be difficult. If we wanted to use the big hammer approach the we would have the API tooling (or plain old PDE) mark exports without versions as a warning/error by default or update each project settings in eclipse to make it an error. Now the question is what version would all the well established packages use? Most eclipse packages do not specify a version which means they have been using the default version of 0.0.0. If a package is being versioned for the first time what should its version be?
- Start off using 1.0.0
- Use the Bundle-Version
I favor using the Bundle-Version for well established packages because if we decide to add versions to the maintenance streams then we have room to downgrade the versions as appropriate. Completely new packages in a release should start off with version 1.0.
I have been trying to version the exports of org.eclipse.osgi for the past few releases. It is hard to keep track of without tooling. Just look at how many times we forget to increment the bundle versions in Eclipse and that is just one version number per bundle to maintain. Now we will have to maintain each package version individually which is a much bigger task. Hopefully more advanced API tooling could detect that the API package has changed since last release and needs to be incremented. Does the new API tooling currently do something like this for Bundle-Version?
Tom
Jeff McAffer ---01/11/2008 02:17:11 PM---Tom raises a good point that we keep letting slide. Are we going to ensure that all export package statements have version num
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To: | equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
Date: | 01/11/2008 02:17 PM |
Subject: | [equinox-dev] Fw: [Bug 214801] [api tools] consider Export-Package as API |
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