Re: [tycho-user] Tycho and classifier

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In general, using classifier isn't a convention properly understood by OSGi, PDE, API Tools nor p2. See how Version Numbering is supposed to happen: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Version_Numbering

If you have some bundles which are targeting different versions of the simultaneous release, I think it's better to give them different names, and to deal with version constraint on their Require-Bundle to make sure both don't get installed simultaneously, and use Import-Package in clients instead of Require-Bundle to let p2 find the artifact that works best for the current installation profile.

It is usually a good thing to extract out the parts that are common in their own common bundle in order to minimize the amount of code concerned by this problem.

HTH