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NOTICE to adopters: WTP 1.0.1 will move to use 4th field "service" qualifier in plugin ver [message #158010] Wed, 25 January 2006 22:29
David Williams is currently offline David WilliamsFriend
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I wanted to be sure this notice got wide attention, so am posting here, even though
this won't effect "end users" -- only those who adopt WTP in their products or
add ons, and even then, only those that might "rebuild" it or otherwise have custom
ant scripts, or similar.

You can see or respond to following bugzilla entry,
Bug 125257 Should move to ".qualifier" version of plugins, even for WTP 1.0.1
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=125257

but in brief, there's good reason to use 4 qualifiers
in a plugin or features version
identifier, such as, 1.0.1.v20060214
where that last one is the CVS tag of the version
that was used in that build. This is the plan for eclipse
3.2 based components anyway, and in our case, makes
sense to move to this scheme now, even though WTP 1.0.1
will still be based on eclipse 3.1

Typically this would be completely transparent to everyone
(except for long ugly file names in some cases :)

but we have heard of at least one case of one large
international business machine company that
had some copy/build script somewhere
that didn't like the four fields very well.

Since any adopters that have similar scripts would
have to fix them for 3.2 based scripts or builds anyway,
we are hoping to beg your indulgence and get things fixed now.
Please post concerns or problems to bug 125257.

Any adoptees of WTP would continue to "require/import" simply
version "1.0" in the runtime version of their plugins, so no
changes are required there (there might be some cases where you'd
want to use 3 fields in a "requires", but ... I don't ever think
you'd need or want to ever use all 4 fields).

For anyone who hasn't kept up with the 3.2 planned versioning scheme, the
best reference for it is
http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/documents/plugin-versioning.h tml

Thanks,
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