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Re: [tycho-user] Relative file urls in target definition files

Hi Tobias

Yes you're right, the documentation is ok. I've just missed any documentation regarding the target-platform-configuration/dependency-resolver/extraRequirements options.

Beat

On 08/23/2012 06:17 PM, Oberlies, Tobias wrote:

The following sentence from http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Target_Platform is supposed to say this:

"In terms of the target platform, this means that the entire content of the p2 repositories specified in this way become part of the target platform."

The problem is that you were assuming something to be required that wasn't documented anywhere. This cannot be solved through documentation - we can't document everything which is not (or even no longer) the case.

So how could we have avoided your misunderstanding? The right place to document things that change are the release notes, i.e. http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Release_Notes/0.13. I agree that they could be better: Target files no longer affect the dependency resolution directly. This information is missing.

But I'm still not sure this would have helped. BTW, I just revisited the comment that you originally linked [1] and saw that much of the discussion is about -Dtycho.targetPlatform (which is deprecated) so I believe most of discussion thread simply no longer applies.

This leaves the option to ask on the mailing list (or Q/A sites like stackoverflow.com [2] where it is easier to remove/update outdated answers to questions), and this solved your problem, right?

Best regards
Tobias


[1] https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/TYCHO-451?focusedCommentId=115409&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-115409
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tycho


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