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Re: [equinox-dev] Customize versioning scheme
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On Apr 7, 2008, at 13:48, Baptiste MATHUS wrote:
Hi all,
We're using Eclipse RCP as the platform for our UI. We're almost
done with dev and are beginning to look at the packaging/deployment
phases.
OSGi specifies the org.osgi.framework.Version class to manage
versioning by default with x.y.z.qualifier scheme. Our scheme is not
very far from it, but not the same, it's something like
a.b.c.d.e.qualifier (two numbers more).
So my question is simple: is this possible to inject a custom
versioning scheme (for example, we could inherit/extend the current
Version class to manage our case) ?
For bundles, no, the OSGi versioning is fixed. I'm not sure of the
point of having so many numbers, but if you have a.b which are on the
whole the same throughout other releases, you might like to call your
bundle foo-a-b_c.d.e.qualifier instead. You'd lose the connection with
the version comparisons but since you'd end up with different named
bundles each time, you could easily do that approach.
The other thing would be to use some kind of bitshift to represent the
numbers e.g. a.b.(c*1024+d*512+e*128).equalifier.
Alex
