Hi Azeez, Even with the pom based approach (as noted by Kishanthan), we do not have the luxury of totally getting rid of this file, carbon.product since both underlying, but external tycho and equinox launcher plug-ins used by our carbon-feature-plugin require this file as an input.
So IMO, the only improvement that we can introduce here is supporting templated-dynamic-creation of the file at carbon-feature-plugin level using the standard carbon kernel version values available in the distribution pom. Thanks, Dilan. *Dilan U. Ariyaratne* Senior Software Engineer WSO2 Inc. <http://wso2.com/> Mobile: +94766405580 <%2B94766405580> lean . enterprise . middleware On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Kishanthan Thangarajah <kishant...@wso2.com > wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Afkham Azeez <az...@wso2.com> wrote: > >> I would suggest totally getting rid of it. >> > > To maintain backward compatibility of the plugin, we need to have the file > based supported. But from next major release of the plugin, we can remove > the usage of this file and use the pom based approach only. > > Thanks, > >> >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:24 PM, KasunG Gajasinghe <kas...@wso2.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> +1. carbon.product file hasn't really been used by the products. So, +1 >>> to make it optional. >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Dilan Udara Ariyaratne <dil...@wso2.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Folks, >>>> >>>> In the process of building C5, we currently require carbon.product for >>>> the following goals. >>>> [1] publish-product >>>> [2] generate-runtime >>>> >>>> This file maintains current version of the carbon kernel to be utilized >>>> by "carbon-feature-plugin" in the build process. >>>> Keeping this value in carbon.product prevents the kernel from been >>>> auto-released as it requires manual intervention to bump >>>> version values as necessary during the release process. >>>> >>>> In order to solve this issue, we are currently in the process of >>>> improving Carbon-Feature-Plugin to dynamically create this file during >>>> build time using >>>> a template where the necessary version value information is read from >>>> corresponding distribution pom file. >>>> >>>> In order to support backward compatibility, we will still maintain the >>>> original approach of keeping a carbon.product file somewhere appropriate >>>> in the distribution folder and read it accordingly when >>>> <productConfigurationFile> tag is present in the pom file. >>>> >>>> In the meantime, as the way to go forward, we will introduce the >>>> following. >>>> >>>> Carbon-Feature-Plugin will be updated to read version and other >>>> optional values that were originally persisted in the file, from the pom >>>> itself. >>>> After reading these values, plugin will dynamically create the >>>> carbon.product which will then be taken into reference by underlying >>>> eclipse.tycho plugin as in the usual way of execution. >>>> >>>> WDYT ? >>>> >>>> Thank You. >>>> >>>> *Dilan U. Ariyaratne* >>>> Senior Software Engineer >>>> WSO2 Inc. <http://wso2.com/> >>>> Mobile: +94766405580 <%2B94766405580> >>>> lean . enterprise . middleware >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Architecture mailing list >>>> Architecture@wso2.org >>>> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> *Kasun Gajasinghe*Associate Technical Lead, WSO2 Inc. >>> email: kasung AT spamfree wso2.com >>> linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/in/gajasinghe >>> blog: http://kasunbg.org >>> phone: +1 650-745-4499 <+1%20650-745-4499>, 77 678 0813 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Architecture mailing list >>> Architecture@wso2.org >>> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Afkham Azeez* >> Senior Director, Platform Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com >> Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ >> * <http://www.apache.org/>* >> *email: **az...@wso2.com* <az...@wso2.com> >> * cell: +94 77 3320919 <+94%2077%20332%200919>blog: * >> *http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org> >> *twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez* >> <http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> >> *linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez >> <http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez>* >> >> *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Architecture mailing list >> Architecture@wso2.org >> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >> >> > > > -- > *Kishanthan Thangarajah* > Technical Lead, > Platform Technologies Team, > WSO2, Inc. > lean.enterprise.middleware > > Mobile - +94773426635 <+94%2077%20342%206635> > Blog - *http://kishanthan.wordpress.com <http://kishanthan.wordpress.com>* > Twitter - *http://twitter.com/kishanthan <http://twitter.com/kishanthan>* > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > Architecture@wso2.org > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > >
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