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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Orbit build qualifiers changing with each build
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Hi Eike,
I can answer [1] since I was responsible for some recent qualifier changes:
While Orbit just re-packages existing binaries, even that re-packaging is sometimes nontrivial . It involves creating a proper MANIFEST.MF and proper about.html as well as about_files . When we find out that anything is not quite right in one of these files, we need to fix it -- thus updating the qualifier without updating the major/minor/micro versions which are always aligned with the original library's version number.
Bottom line is, with each Indigo milestone you should pick up the latest Orbit milestone (S-build) which is prepared in the -1 time frame, one week before the Platform declares.
Regarding the <includes> I remember that this has caused much discussion, especially related to Buckminster which sometimes converts <includes> into <requires>. I cannot remember the details, but I think Jeff had quite a strong opinion. For some related meeting notes, see
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/PMC/Minutes_2010 (Oct 6)
HTH,
Martin
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From: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eike Stepper
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:16 AM
To: Cross project issues
Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] Orbit build qualifiers changing with each build
Hi,
One milestone ago Nicolas Bros started the thread "conflicting dependencies to Orbit". From all the 47 posts I can not remember if there was some kind of consensus on how we're planning to resolve that issue. My build is currently hitting it again. In this particular case it's all kinds of plugins (e.g. swtbot, mwe2) that depend on very specific log4j version. In fact they all want log4j 1.2.5, but one plugin has built its feature with an old Orbit, others built against a newer Orbit.
I would like to know:
1) Why does Orbit change the qualifier with each build although I assume that nothng in these plugins has ever changed since their creation?
2) Do we have a plan how to resolve the issue in the future that the <includes> tag in Eclipse features leads to dependency ranges like "[x,x]" in p2?
Cheers
/Eike
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