[platform-releng-dev] Heads up to possible large change in how we build

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I know this is the last week before "M3
stabilization" M3 +0 is 11/1), but I think it worth pushing on aggressively
with bug 419092. 

Bug 419092
- [Mac] Kepler doesn't launch without JRE 6, even if JDK 7 is installed
(Platform Runtime build) 

From my tests and experiments, I think the easiest way
to fix this issue is to stop including the "configuration feature"
in our "products", though this may introduce other bugs that
will need to be fixed (see bug 401037 for ones we found in the past). 

The basic reasoning is that I found our "standard"
version is of "Info.plist" is not correct for any other product
except the Eclipse SDK, and rather than wrestle with Tycho to try and get
it to "over write" with the correct values ... I think we'd be
better off in the long run just letting Tycho create the Info.plist file
like it wants to. 

I'm doing a test build tonight to make sure it solves
the original problem, but if it does will likely need follow up work to
see what else has to be defined "manually" in our product definitions,
instead of re-using the configuration feature. 

Just wanted to give a heads up, since I don't think our
unit tests will find many issues (it uses "java -jar <launcher>").


The issues are complicated ... but, if anyone has any
better, easier fixes, suggestions are welcome. (And, if it doesn't solve
original problem, or causes even more problems than anticipated, I'll revert
before M3). 

Thanks,