[tycho-dev] Important refactoring about executionEnvironment and target-

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

As mentioned earlier, I've made some substantial changes in how the Execution Environments are handled to make things more correct and not have unrelated and undesired environments leaking in dependency resolution.

This also comes with some changes to better support the absence of pack200 on newer Java, or to better support toolchains.

I've tried to document the most visible changes at https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Release_Notes/2.0#Target_platform_resolution_becoming_more_correct

I invite anyone to try the current 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT and report bugs if they face any. Also, your feedback would be useful to maybe adjust some behavior or documentation.

Concretely, you'll also save time by trying it now while it's still easy to change things than waiting for the upcoming staging/release version at the risk of finding blockers when it's too late for quick-fixes ;)

Thanks in advance.

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Mickael Istria

Eclipse IDE developer, for Red Hat Developers