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

["Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Let's say we did increment the version number between milestone builds,
> wouldn't you run into the same problem with prereqs?

Probably, but I take one battle at the time here ,)
Making WTP do it can make it spread to others.

And right now I have some prereq besides WTP (e.g. GEF and Draw2D) and  
they seem
much more stable, so not the biggest problem (but a problem nevertheless)

> 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.

Which unsupported tool ?

-max

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