[tycho-user] Multiple products based on features/plugins?

[Tobias Placht <tobias.placht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,

i am having a problem. First of all this is the current situation:

I have a product file based on features where plugins 1 to 3 are 
feature one, plugins 4 to 10 are feature two, and so on...
Everything works as expected, no problems with maven,tycho or jenkins. 
Target is Windows/Linux

So right now i need another configuration with less functionallity, 
which means with fewer plugins.

As far as i understand there are now two possibilitys:

1) Repack plugins to another feature which leaves me with the following 
situation

plugin 1,2,3 -> featureA -> Product A
plugin 1     -> featureB -> Product B

plugin 4,5,6,7,8,9,10 -> featureA -> Product A
plugin 4,8            -> featureB -> Product B

and so on...

The problem here is of course the redundancy.

2)Product based on plugins

In this case i have to manually edit the product configuration files 
like
statet here: 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/FAQ#How_to_build_plugin-based_products_with_platform-specific_fragments.3F

If i am wrong please feel free to correct me ;)

So my Questions are:

1. Is my understanding right? Maybe i am missing something...
2. Right now i prefer the feature based product configuration, but can 
i avoid the above mentioned redundancy?
3. What is the preferred way to handle multiple products with tycho?

Thank you in advance
Greetings from Germany
Tobias