Hi Kasun, On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Kasun Siyambalapitiya <kasu...@wso2.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > When I was creating a custom product using carbon-kernel version > 5.2.0-alpha[1] the following issue aroused. > In a scenario where a product is build with 2 runtimes called runtimeA and > runtimeB. > > runtimeA contains the below feature among it's other features > > pax.exam.feature v5.2.0.0 > sample-bundle2 v5.2.0.0 > log-bundle v1.5.0 > > > while runtmeB contains the below feature among it's other features > > sample.feature v5.2.0.1 > sample-bundle1 v5.2.0.0 > monitor-bundle v1.5.0 > pax.exam.feature v5.2.0.1 > > > > As shown above since there is a dependency to the > `pax.exam.feature,v5.2.0.1` from the `sample.feature,v5.2.0.1`, to have > both versions of `pax.exam.feature` to be installed into the separate > runtimes of the product, it is required to define dependency information of > each `pax.exam.feature` versions (v5.2.0.0 and v5.2.0.1) under the > <dependencies> tag in the pom.xml file. > > But during the build process, maven will only pick one version of that > dependency and omit the other versions to avoid any conflicts using the > *"nearest > in the dependency tree"* strategy (already asked in stackoverflow [1]). > This will results in a build failure as if the build process resolves > dependency of `pax.exam.feature` v5.2.0.0`, the version v5.2.0.1 will not > be available during build and vice versa. > > Is this a legitimate case that we should address? > IMO it will be a best practise to use the newest versions of the features > available when creating runtimes than using the older versions which in > turn will resolve this issue. > > Your comments are highly appreciated. > As per the offline discussion, this issue is for generating the p2-repo. You will need to check whether both versions of the feature are there in the p2-repo that is being generated. If it does not exist then we would need to fix it there. > > [1] https://github.com/wso2/carbon-kernel/tree/v5.2.0-alpha > [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24962607/multiple- > versions-of-the-same-dependency-in-maven > > Thanks > > -- > *Regards,* > > *Kasun Siyambalapitiya* > *Software Engineer* > WSO2 Inc. - http://wso2.com/ > lean . enterprise . middleware > Tel : 0715523466 > E mail : kasu...@wso2.com > Blog: https://medium.com/@kasunsiyambalapitiya > <https://wso2.com/signature> > Regards, Nira -- *Niranjan Karunanandham* Associate Technical Lead - WSO2 Inc. WSO2 Inc.: http://www.wso2.com
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