[orbit-dev] Progress on having just one build assembly feature

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, beginning with I200703220322, all
our bundles are now in one feature ... "set 1". 

Thanks to all the improvements Pascal
has made and fixed in PDE build ... and using the slighly-pre-M6 version
of the base 
builder that Kim provided (the one tagged
v20070321), I was able to move all the set 2 bundles to set 1. 

So .... please check extra close that
I200703220322 (or later) is correct and no subtle bugs have been introduced.


I believe we have one or two singleton
bundles, but not multiple versions of those. I will leave the "set
2" mechanics 
pretty much in place, for when we do
need to have multiple versions of singleton bundles. 

Also, there's a couple of limitations
(still) in having just one feature. 

While the set1 feature itself is from
HEAD, the releng maps sill have to be from the set 1 branch. To fix this,
I'll have 
to fix our current build scripts ...
and I'm tired of tweaking build scripts for now. (and, doesn't seem as
important as some 
other fixes needed, such as signing).


Second, it turns out the releng tools
we all know and love doesn't handle multiple versions quite right ... both
in releasing
and in "load map projects".
I've opened bugs 178719 and 178720 for these.  
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=178719
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=178720

The implication is, though, that you
may not be able to use the releng tool if you are working on a mulitple-version
bundle .... 
and you'll have to version the bundle
project, and update the map file with copy/paste or typing. Use care.