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Re: [tycho-user] is it possible to override version requirements?
If your interested in help improving support for patch-features feel free to contribute :-)
You will still have the problem that the plugin itself has a hard version requirement so you need to patch this as well (and probably others that require this and so on). Patch features are mainly useful if you like to provide an Update-Site and let users install the patch, but I have never used them.
If you simply need to replace temporary a hard dependency like this it seems the best to to build a jar with the exact version of the replacement and simply swap out the jar in the plugin folder. 

Am 31.01.21 um 22:12 schrieb Homer, Tony:
Thanks Rolf!  I didn’t know about this possibility and it seems like it matches my goals.
Reading the comments, 378794 is blocked by 372780, but fortunately, Christoph and Mickael are both involved https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=372780 <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=372780> 

😉
The bug describes a workaround for the problem which I understand, but I’m not sure how to integrate a feature patch into my build for producing an Eclipse product.
I suppose after I make the feature patch and deploy it to a combined P2 repo (as described in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=378794#c14 <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=378794#c14>), I would add it to the product file and the target definition.  Would dependency resolution respect the dependency version in my feature patch?
I’ll have to experiment with it, I suppose, but if anyone has used feature patches in an eclipse product that is being built for distribution, please let me know! 

Thanks again, Rolf!

Tony Homer
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Hi,
Isn't this where Feature patches are intended for? "A Feature Patch Project can contain plug-ins which replace existing plug-ins.", see https://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipsePatching/article.html <https://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipsePatching/article.html> or https://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2012/07/30/patching-your-own-eclipse-ide/ <https://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2012/07/30/patching-your-own-eclipse-ide/>
Though feature patches are not well supported by Tycho, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=378794 <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=378794> 

Best Regards,

Rolf
Op zo 31 jan. 2021 om 00:06 schreef Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>>: 

    Hi,

    On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:28 PM Homer, Tony <tony.homer@xxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:tony.homer@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

        However, today I wondered, is it somehow to possible to override
        the dependency requirements?

    That's a bit too hacky IMO, but maybe a combination of
    https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Target_Platform#Extra_requirements
    <https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Target_Platform#Extra_requirements>
    and https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Target_Platform#Filtering
    <https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Target_Platform#Filtering> can work.

    But in this case, the issue is really that the feature requires the
    "regular" version and Tycho won't change the feature. So even if you
    manage to hack the dependency resolution at build time, this
    resolution error you see now in Tycho would still be likely to
    happen later for people trying to install...

    So in this case, you'll need to tweak the
    org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer.httpclient45.feature (or most likely
    build a fork of it) so it doesn't require this specific version of
    the bundle, but can use any version. This is usually possible by
    replacing a direct <plugin> element (which mandates specific
    version) by a `<requires><import
    plugin="org.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient"/></requires>` which
    results in more open version range and would pick anyone that matches.

    If you add the fixed bundle build and the "relaxed" feature build to
    your build, they should be used by the product instead of the ones
    from upstream, and it should then work; unless there is something
    else that requires the specific version of feature or bundle.

    HTH

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