| Re: [platform-dev] SWT - supported Linux versions |
We build SWT on our own using just these 2 SWT repositories. Will that
version be correct in this case, too? In other words, this would mean
that the 'official 4.16 version' somewhere is stored in these SWT
repositories.
--
Best regards,
Thomas Singer
On 2020-10-15 17:20, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 6:13 PM Gregor Schmid <gschmide@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> the number 4.940 in version.txt has only just become meaningless - see
>> the recent discussion about "Inconsistent version change in SWT 4.18"
>> and the associated closed bug report
>>
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=567789
>>
>> In that discussion Tom mentioned the Manifest file as an alternative
>> and I'm investigating that. Thanks Aleksandar, for moving that
>> forward.
>>
>> So I'm also curious about the Implementation-Version in the Manifest
>> file. Does that have a well-defined meaning?
>
>
> It should be the version as specified in the OSGi manifest -
> https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/tree/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
> . I notice that it is wrong with my patch so I have to look further at what
> needs fixing.
>
>
>> Is it documented
>> somewhere? Is it reliable?
>>
>
> It's 100% reliable as we have tools that verify that OSGi metadata is good
> and bumped when a change happens.
>
>
>>
>> If not, wouldn't it be a good idea to have both "4.18" and "2020-12"
>> added to the Manifest file and/or as constants at some well-defined
>> location like the Library class or the version.txt file?
>>
>
> I wouldn't mind having eclipse sdk version (4.18) in the manifest too. It
> is the best place according to me for such metadata. Just have to play with
> the build system to make sure it's fetched from the main build and not
> hardcoded to prevent shipping wrong content.
>
>
>>
>> My suggestion to use a map to deduct the user-visible version from
>> whatever inconsistent version number is embedded in the code was
>> actually a joke. If that's the only way, so be it, but from a software
>> engineering standpoint I still vote for something predictable :-).
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Greg
>>
>> Thomas Singer <ts-swt@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Aleksandar,
>>>
>>> Do you mean
>>>
>>>> Manifest-Version: 1.0
>>>> Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.10.9
>>>> Created-By: 11.0.2+9 (Oracle Corporation)
>>>> SWT-OS: linux
>>>> SWT-WS: gtk
>>>> SWT-Arch: x86_64
>>>> Implementation-Version: 3.113.0
>>>
>>> Should I find there something like "4.16"? The version.txt still shows
>>> "version 4.940". It's all a little bit confusing.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Thomas Singer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2020-10-15 16:04, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
>>>> Thomas, would you please look at
>>>>
>> https://ci.eclipse.org/platform/job/eclipse.platform.swt-Gerrit/1815/artifact/eclipse.platform.swt.binaries/bundles/org.eclipse.swt.gtk.linux.x86_64/target/swt-I20201015-1352-gtk-linux-x86_64.zip
>>>> and the swt.jar/manifest.mf in it. If this works for you I'll push and
>> it
>>>> will be available starting tomorrow build.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 4:06 PM Aleksandar Kurtakov <
>> akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 3:28 PM Thomas Singer <ts-swt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Aleksander,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the link. Now the problem remains how to map between the
>>>>>> content of the version.txt inside the org.eclipse*.jar to the
>>>>>> Eclipse/SWT version. For example, my version.txt contains the
>>>>>> information "version 4.940". Which is the corresponding Eclipse/SWT
>>>>>> version?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Frankly, this questions I can't easily answer. I've opened
>>>>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=567906 to use
>>>>> Implementation-Version in the manifest for that.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Thomas Singer
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2020-10-15 13:38, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 2:27 PM Thomas Singer <ts-swt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How can I find out which Eclipse/SWT release is supposed to support
>>>>>>>> which platforms, especially which Linux versions? Thanks in advance.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#gtkstartup - lists the mapping
>>>>>> between
>>>>>>> gtk and swt versions.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> Tom
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