[tycho-dev] FW: using <feature-id>.feature.group as artifactId

["Oberlies, Tobias" <tobias.oberlies@xxxxxxx>]

Opening to all tycho developers...

-----Original Message-----
From: ldi-developers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ldi-developers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Oberlies, Tobias
Sent: Dienstag, 29. November 2011 12:14
To: Sievers, Jan; Igor Fedorenko
Subject: Re: [ldi-developers] using <feature-id>.feature.group as artifactId

I am -0 on supporting artifactId=<featureId>.feature.group. AFAIK the ".feature.group" suffix is not API of p2, so we shouldn't make it API of Tycho. But I see that this could be an alternative workaround to the GAV uniqueness problem.

I am -1 on disallowing artifactId=<featureId>. This would mean that people who name their features "org.example.tool.feature" would be forced to set the groupId "org.example.tool.feature.feature.group". This makes it easy to use the same IDs for features and bundles (which is IMHO a mediocre idea), and put burden on people who name their features properly.

In any case, Tycho would need to cope with a non-unique mapping between artifactId and Eclipse Id (at least in the transition phase) - and if we need to implement this anyway, we could also just keep it. One reason for not allowing arbitrary artifactIds is that fixing all the problems it entails [1] was deemed too much effort. 

Regards
Tobias


[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=353384


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sievers, Jan
> Sent: Dienstag, 29. November 2011 09:45
> To: Igor Fedorenko; Oberlies, Tobias
> Subject: RE: using <feature-id>.feature.group as artifactId
> 
> +1
> 
> the case where there are plugins and features with the same id is
> unfortunately pretty common and our workaround with a different groupId is
> ugly.
> 
> Appending .feature.group is consistent with how p2 solved the same
> problem.
> 
> Regards
> Jan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Fedorenko [mailto:igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Montag, 28. November 2011 21:00
> To: Oberlies, Tobias; Sievers, Jan
> Subject: using <feature-id>.feature.group as artifactId
> 
> One thing I forgot to mention today.
> 
> To disambiguate features and bundles with the same id, p2 adds
> .feature.group suffix when generating IU id from feature id, if feature
> id does not end with .feature.group already.
> 
> I would like to do the same in Tycho, only do this more aggressively.
> For 0.14 allow artifactId with and without .feature.group suffix but
> when .feature.group is not present. For the next version only allow
> artifactId=<feature-id>.feature.group
> 
> 
> In other words, 0.14
> 
> feature.xml id=org.some.feature
> pom.xml artifactId=org.some.feature => WARNING
> pom.xml artifactId=org.some.feature.feature.group OK
> 
> 
> In the next version
> 
> feature.xml id=org.some.feature
> pom.xml artifactId=org.some.feature => FAILURE
> pom.xml artifactId=org.some.feature.feature.group OK
> 
> 
> I really dislike using special groupId and I think there are cases where
> assuming unique artifactId for entire reactor build will make things
> easier.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Igor