[news.eclipse.tools.buckminster] Unique qualifiers for features

["Tas Frangoullides" <tfrangoullides@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

It's really cool that you can get buckminster to use the subversion revision 
number as a plugins version qualifier. I do this with the following 
properties which I borrowed from the MailApp tutorial.

qualifier.replacement.*=generator:lastRevision
generator.lastRevision.format=r{0,number,00000}

The way I understand it the feature version has to be incremented so that 
during software update it is recognized as having new functionality. However 
the  feature doesn't change in version control even if the plugins it 
includes do. I'd like to have a nightly update site so I'm wondering if 
there is a way to use use a timestamp for features and a revision number for 
plugins? Or any other mechanism you think would work?

Thanks,
Tas