Re: [tycho-user] tycho and maven prepare release

[Oliver Libutzki <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mikhail,

there are two reason why I am doing it this way which are mentioned
here:
http://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/examples/prepare-release.html

1) Check that there are no uncommitted changes in the sources
I need this feature as I would like to ensure that no
snapshot-dependencies are present.

2) Transform the SCM information in the POM to include the final
destination of the tag
The Release plugin modifies the scm information and replaces /trunk with
the url of my release tag. I guess that this is not part of scm:tag,
right? So do you know a solution for this.

If I could replace these two features of the Release plugin I would
build Tycho related releases without the Release plugin.

So any suggestions are highly appreciated :-)

Kind regards
Oliver

Btw. for the first feature I stumbled upon the Maven Enforcer Plugin
which might do this job as well.
https://maven.apache.org/enforcer/enforcer-rules/requireReleaseDeps.html
Any experiences?

Am 05.12.2015 um 13:23 schrieb Mikhail Kalkov:
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> I'm glad that you got this working, but after rereading my answer I
> realized I might have been unclear. Unreasonably many steps which create
> noise and can go wrong, is exactly the reason I believe it is better to use
> a versions plugin instead of the maven-release-plugin. This is also the
> idea advocated by Axel in the article I linked. Out of curiosity, what is
> the reason you've gone the release-plugin way?
> Kind regards,
> Mikhail Kalkov
> 
> 2015-12-04 21:11 GMT+01:00 Oliver Libutzki <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>> Hi Mikhail,
>>
>> thanks for the hints. I have never heard of version-tiger so far, but it
>> looks promising...
>>
>> Anyway, I found another solution which offers me the possibility to rely
>> on the maven-release-plugin:
>>
>> 1) Call  tycho-versions-plugin:set-versions in order to update the OSGi
>> artifacts to the release version
>> 2) Call scm:checkin in order to commit the modified files
>> 3) Call release:prepare
>> 4) Call tycho-versions-plugin:set-versions in order to update the OSGi
>> artifacts to the next snapshot/qualifier version
>> 5) Call scm:checkin in order to commit the modified files
>>
>> Unfortunately I have a couple of commits. If something goes wrong in
>> this chain, I have a messed status in my repository.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Oliver
>>
>> Am 04.12.2015 um 11:27 schrieb Mikhail Kalkov:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> RoboVM instructions suggest using tycho-versions-plugin, which is
>> actually
>>> comparable to versions-maven-plugin and completely different from
>>> maven-release-plugin. You can read about why it is preferable to use
>>> versions-plugin instead of release-plugin here:
>>> https://axelfontaine.com/blog/final-nail.html
>>>
>>> That said, I've worked on a project that used maven-release-plugin to
>>> release Eclipse projects, but it required writing several groovy scripts
>>> that would update MANIFEST.MF, feature.xml and product.xml to be
>> consistent
>>> with pom.xml. It works, but I believe it is better to use
>>> tycho-versions-plugin:set-versions along with scm:tag and deploy. There
>> is
>>> also https://github.com/inventage/version-tiger tool that can be used in
>>> place of tycho-versions-plugin but I have never used it and don't know
>>> about it's pros&cons.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Mikhail Kalkov
>>>
>>> 2015-12-03 15:07 GMT+01:00 Oliver Libutzki <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>> Hi Francois,
>>>>
>>>> I'm interested in a solution as well. I have a multi module Maven
>>>> architecture which contains pom-first and manifest-first projects. I
>> would
>>>> like to release (including tags and so on) it with one execution of the
>>>> Maven Release Plugin.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone out there who achieved this?
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>> Oliver
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *Von: *"LE FEVRE FRANCOIS" <francois.le-fevre@xxxxxx>
>>>> *An: *"tycho-user" <tycho-user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> *Gesendet: *Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2015 09:41:18
>>>> *Betreff: *[tycho-user] tycho and maven prepare release
>>>>
>>>> Dear Tycho user,
>>>>
>>>> Could you provide me an example where using maven-release-plugin [1]
>> with
>>>> a Tycho project?
>>>>
>>>> How can I add also the Tycho version plugin [2] to work with it?
>>>>
>>>> I have found this post [3] that describes the steps manually.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Francois
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1]: http://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin
>>>>
>>>> [2]:
>>>>
>> https://eclipse.org/tycho/sitedocs/tycho-release/tycho-versions-plugin/plugin-info.html
>>>>
>>>> [3]: https://github.com/robovm/robovm-eclipse/wiki/Performing-a-release
>>>>
>>>>
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