Re: [tycho-user] Automatically keeping version numbers in sync

[Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Could you please elaborate as to why you have to edit 3 files?
As far as I can tell you should only need to update the pom.xml and whatever other metadata on the eclipse side (manifest, feature, etc)

On 2012-06-21, at 9:33 PM, Barrie Treloar wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Igor Fedorenko <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I did not look at automating this for maybe three years now, but last
>> time I checked maven-release-plugin was basically single hardcoded
>> release workflow and required some major changes to accommodate tycho
>> projects at all and likely complete rewrite to provide proper support.
>> At the same time, it literally takes me 3 minutes to do m2e or tycho
>> release manually [1], and this includes making myself a nice cup of
>> coffee. For me, spending time on better release procedure simply does
>> not make sense, but your situation may of course be different.
>> 
>> [1]
>> https://docs.sonatype.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Staging+and+releasing+new+M2Eclipse+release
> 
> Yup, we have semi-technical release managers doing the release for us
> to isolate "works on developer" box problems.
> 
> Currently having them edit 3 files (both on release and afterwards) is
> error prone and time consuming.
> This may be exasperated by having one big release that does everything
> instead of smaller ones.
> 
> I'll have to re-evaluate what we do.
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