[tycho-user] Revisiting Bug 355706

[Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like someone to revisit 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=355706 which hasn't had 
any activity since last year.

I have made a proposal in the bug to add an option to 
tycho-versions-plugin:set-version to ignore eclipse-feature and 
eclipse-plugin packaging specifiers when making changes.  This won't 
change current default behaviour and makes it possible for us to use it 
without it forcing manual changes afterwards.  I suggested something 
like -DexcludeFeaturesPlugins

To recap, when we use the tycho-versions-plugin:set-version to change 
our package (and parent pom versions) from x.y.z-SNAPSHOT to x.y.z, the 
set-version operation also finds any features and plug-ins that have 
x.y.z-SNAPSHOT and changes them as well.  This removes the time-stamp 
qualifier from those features/plug-ins and we have to manually go back 
after running to fix them.

Please add comments to the bug regarding the option or how feasible it 
would be to implement.

Thanks,

-- Jeff J.