Re: [wtp-dev] WTP feature/plugin versioning

[Jeffrey Liu <jeffliu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Max,

I agree in principle that the version
number (perhapes, the 4th digit) should be updated between milestone builds.
Unfortunately, I can only think of two ways to do this:

1. Update all feature/plug-in version
numbers and commit them into CVS. This approach is not viable because it
introduces too much noise to the build team and the dev teams.

2. PDE/org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder
supports an automated way to insert 4th digit version numbers into features/plug-ins
fetched out of CVS. We do not have such support right now, but I know that
the Eclipse releng team will investigate this in the 3.2 timeframe.

Let's say we did increment the version
number between milestone builds, wouldn't you run into the same problem
with prereqs? I'm pretty sure Eclipse, VE and GEF do not provide version
updates between milestone builds (EMF does). So, even if WTP did update
the version numbers, you probably have to go through the same pain of managing
the version numbers of the prereqs.

An alternative way to tackle this problem
is to insert the 4th digit version number when you build your update site.
Eclipse has a (unsupported) tool that helps you do this. If you want to
take a look at this tool, let me know, I'll send it to you. But then again,
we still have to deal with the prereqs, which have not updated their versions.

Thanks,

Jeffrey Liu
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"Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen@xxxxxxxxx>
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06/10/2005 08:27 AM

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Subject	Re: [wtp-dev] WTP feature/plugin versioning

It is also not just an update site issue, it is also a major
pain to identify library conflicts if users upgrade/install
via a normal download.

And its also a major issue to sync up projects that uses WTP plugins -
no way to see what version they are using by manual inspection, trial and
 
error...

If the minor version number were incremented (which in my view make sense
since something really has changed and been released) then these  
integration
issues will be alot less painfull - and WTP would get adapted quicker.

-max

> It seems that version numbers aren't being updated for major milestones,
 
> and this is causing a major problem for our update site (where we
have  
> multiple plugins dependant on multiple milestones of webtools).
>
> Is there any hope of getting correct version numbering for upcoming
 
> milestone builds?
>
> We've opened a bug here:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=99338
>


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