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

["Tas Frangoullides" <tfrangoullides@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I  didn't realise it was that clever and assumed it just used the features 
revision. That's really cool!

Thanks,
Tas


"Thomas Hallgren" <thomas@xxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Tas Frangoullides wrote:
> > 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?
> If you use the same revision scheme for the feature, it's qualifier will 
> be the highest revision found in its dependencies or in itself. I.e. the 
> feature qualifier will be bumped when one of its dependencies changes even 
> if the feature itself doesn't change.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren