> On 31. Mar 2017, at 05:38, David Williams <david_willi...@acm.org> wrote:
>> I think there is also another thing to consider. IMHO projects should stop >> hard-pinning specific 3rd party versions in the feature.xml - > > This makes builds and installs non-deterministic. I think our builds are non-deterministic now, i.e. there is no predictability what versions of a 3rd party bundle will be in a package and there is also zero predictability which Equinox will pick at runtime for resolving dependencies. Keep in mind that features are for assembling/installation but they have zero influence on the runtime resolution. That's why I'm proposing to defer the decision, what gets put into a package, to the package build time. We test packages not individual projects. Also, there are many projects that declare they require bundle XYZ with a minimum version of 1.2.3 in their dependencies. At the same time they also indicate that they are happy with any higher version. Thus, the argument that projects only run/support with a very specific version does not hold true. They may test with only one very specific version. They are - however - not very specific about that in their bundle dependency declaration. -Gunnar _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
