Hi Gunnar
Your comment is tooling dependent.
Unfortunately, in some cases specifying that XYZ requires a minimum
1.2.3 version gets converted by some builder into exactly 1.2.3 making
re-use across Eclipse releases impossible.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 31/03/2017 07:22, Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote:
On 31. Mar 2017, at 05:38, David Williams <[email protected]> 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
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