If the new API is completely pull such that the API is again the same as the last released version then yes, revert to 1.0. But as long as the API is different than the last released version, it should remain 1.1. Putting a qualifier of a build date or tag on the package export is wrong. It will lead one to believe that importing that package with a qualifier is ok and meaningful. But a qualifier of a build date or tag says nothing about API backwards compatibility. It is just a form of identity with no meaningful ordering. --
BJ Hargrave Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: +1 386 848 1781 mobile: +1 386 848 3788 From: Thomas Watson/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@eclipse.org> Date: 2008/09/05 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] .qualifier for export package? Anyone adopting early API (before API freeze) has to be prepared for breaking changes. We must have the flexibility to develop our new API and increment our versions properly from one final release to the next. Imagine the following scenario foo; version=1.0 The M1 build adds new backwards compatibility API to foo and the version becomes: foo; version=1.1 In the M2 build it is decided that the new API is bad and is pulled out, now what do you think foo version should be? back to 1.0 or 1.2 or 2.0? removing the API technically is a backwards compatibility change so technically the version should become 2.0 when compared to the version of foo from the M1 build. I think we must evolve our API versions from the last release, not from build to build. In this case the foo package contains the exact API as the 1.0 version, making it anything other than 1.0 is wrong and confusing. Adding a qualifier will allow clients to depend on a particular version of the package from a particular build (or CVS tag) if they really need to. But I do not think this is the common case and we should not recommend as a best practice to include qualifiers in version ranges used in Import-Package or Require-Bundle. Tom BJ Hargrave---09/05/2008 09:40:56 AM---But the qualifier is just another component of the version to allow ordering among versions. Why is change it any different tha From: BJ Hargrave/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@eclipse.org> Date: 09/05/2008 09:40 AM Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] .qualifier for export package? But the qualifier is just another component of the version to allow ordering among versions. Why is change it any different than changing any other component of the version? (Other than semantic we place on the version components.) Changing any part of the version during development is only interesting if someone will change their import to depend upon that "higher" version. And if someone becomes dependent upon that new version, then making backwards incompatible API changes during development is in trouble. Backing out API changes made during dev does not mean you can simply revert the version number since there may have been changes in other areas of the package which are not affected by the back out. Original: 1.2 Make change A: 1.2.0.qual1 Make change B: 1.2.0.qual2 Backout change A: 1.2.0.qual1 is not right since change B is still there. -- BJ Hargrave Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: +1 386 848 1781 mobile: +1 386 848 3788 From: Thomas Watson/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@eclipse.org> Date: 2008/09/05 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] .qualifier for export package? If we decided to back out an API then we revert the version back and have to make the necessary announcements to the community to prepare them for the version decrease in mid development cycle. From release to release our version have to follow our version rules at http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Version_Numbering I do not think we should change the minor number each time API is added for each I-Build or milestone. That should only be done once each release. What Jeff would like is the ability to pick a particular build of a package from a development. If this is important then the qualifier approach is likely the most simple approach. Another approach could be to have exporters add a matching attribute that indicates new API. But this does not scale well. For example: Export-Package: foo; version="2.1"; bar=true This would be used when some new bar feature was added to the foo package, then Export-Package: foo; version="2.1"; bar=true; baz=true This would be used when both the bar and baz features are added to the foo package. This is possible but is hard to manage and is just ugly. Is this a serious enough issue that we must address it? It seems like it is just a temporary issue that goes away once the final release is done. Tom BJ Hargrave---09/05/2008 07:50:25 AM---If I understand #2 correctly, then you want a controlled version practice during the development cycle. This is challenging sin From: BJ Hargrave/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@eclipse.org> Date: 09/05/2008 07:50 AM Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] .qualifier for export package? If I understand #2 correctly, then you want a controlled version practice during the development cycle. This is challenging since you may want to change your mind and break from a previous API change made during the same dev cycle. For example: 1.2 is the last shipped version of a package (let's say thats in Ganymede). So during the dev cycle you change to 1.3 because you add new API. Soon you add more API. 1.3.1 or 1.4? Then you decide to pull some of those API changes because we learned they did not work as expected. What version then? 2.0? Because of the breaking change? I think this is a fairly impossible situation during the dev cycle because we are free to change our mind about new API until API freeze. I think the odd/even versioning could be useful. But it still does not easily handle the removal of new API previously added during the dev cycle. It only seems to work well if the API only "grows" but does not shrink. -- BJ Hargrave Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: +1 386 848 1781 mobile: +1 386 848 3788 From: Jeff McAffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@eclipse.org> Date: 2008/09/05 04:32 AM Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] .qualifier for export package? I'm certainly sympathetic to you thinking here. Having qualifiers in import statements is ugly at best. The challenge is that in the dev cycle the API of something may change many many times. This would lead to quite visible changes in unreasonable ways. For example, say we introduce some API and then "break" it several times as we refine in the dev cycle. Then the first release of the API might have version 42.23.27 or some such. Trying to manage API semantics during the dev/release cycle seems like overkill. Clearly that is an over done example but you get the point I hope. Lets step back for a second. Some goals in decreasing order of priority/importance. Goal #1: ensure that at least all API packages have version numbers on the exports. Goal #2: be able to eat our own dog food wrt provisioning and version management during the dev cycle. Good news is that #1 is likely agreed to and *all* we have to do is put the initial version numbers on the current packages and then have the tooling help people manage them according to the current versioning model. The proposal for using .qualifier was actually one possible implementation of goal #2. #2 is interesting because eating our own dog food seems to greatly increase the likelihood of our technology being good/useful. Without some sort of increasing version number on the packages, p2 for example, will have a hard time figuring out what to give you cause everything will look the same to it. Can anyone think of another way of enabling #2? Of the top of my head I'm thinking that something like the odd/even version pattern might help... Jeff BJ Hargrave wrote: If you change API during dev cycle, that is the proper time to also change the major or minor version. That is the whole point. I would assume that API tooling will complain until you do so. Just changing the qualifier is insufficient to capture an API change. Also, I think that last thing we want to see are bundles using qualifiers in import package statements! So if you use qualifier to denote API change during dev, then other bundles will need to import using qualifiers to ensure they wire to the desire API if they use it. UGLY! Qualifiers are useful to capture implementation changes. But API is a specified thing that changes deliberately and (hopefully) slowly and its version is not subject to implementation. -- BJ Hargrave Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: +1 386 848 1781 mobile: +1 386 848 3788 From: Jeff McAffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@eclipse.org> Date: 2008/09/03 06:16 AM Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] .qualifier for export package? I understand your hestiation and actually agree with you from the "released code" point of view. However, we spend a lot of time dealing with code and API that is in development. If we are to have any hope of provisioning and managing that, we need to know the difference between the various iterations of the packages. For example, when someone adds an API during the dev cycle and you want use it, you need to import the right version of the package to ensure you get it. Changing the first three segments version number of the package for every change done in the dev cycle feels too disruptive. To a certain extent this could be handled in the provisioning system but that would force the situation of bundles in a particular context (e.g., a build "lineup"). That is, bundles would no longer be completely/accurately self-describing. Jeff BJ Hargrave wrote: I would be extremely cautious about using qualifier on package versions. I must say that I have never seen it done. It seems an over specification. I think that having build tools to advise you to increment the micro is more than sufficient. -- BJ Hargrave Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: +1 386 848 1781 mobile: +1 386 848 3788 From: Thomas Watson/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@eclipse.org> Date: 2008/09/02 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] .qualifier for export package? Before recommending every package uses a qualifier I have the following concerns: 1) In Eclipse we have loads of packages. We better make sure all identical qualifier Strings are shared (interned etc.) for performance reasons. Today when loading from a cached state we share identical Version objects. Because package versions are managed independently we will end up with lots of different versions that have the same qualifier exported by a bundle. We also will limit the ability to share Version objects across bundles because each will use a different qualifier (unless we happen to use the same CVS tag). 2) The qualifier will change even in cases where no code was touched in the package. I'm not sure this is a valid concern. The code got recompiled so perhaps changing the version qualifier is warranted. But we need to think about the consequences. For example, I can see API tooling start to complain that the micro version of a package should be increased to indicate a bug "fix" when comparing the package versions with a base line. It will notice that the qualifier changed from a previous release but the micro version was not increased. 3) What about versions of packages which we do not maintain the API for at Eclipse. Things like org.osgi.* and orbit bundles. Shouldn't we use the version the producers of the API have defined? Adding a qualifier here does not seem right, especially if a qualifier is already defined by the producers. On the surface this sounds like a fine idea, and I am not completely against it. But I would like to take the first step of versioning the Eclipse API packages first to see what all the issues are with independent package versioning. I'm sure we will run into other hurdles along the way. For example, how does a developer maintain the version of a split package across all the bundles the package is split? Tom "Chris Aniszczyk" ---08/31/2008 02:46:34 PM---On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Jeff McAffer < [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Chris Aniszczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Equinox development mailing list" <equinox-dev@eclipse.org> Date: 08/31/2008 02:46 PM Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] .qualifier for export package? On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Jeff McAffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As version numbers on packages become more prevalent does it start making sense to use .qualifier on them in addition to bundle version numbers? The logic here is the same as for bundles. we rev the version number of the bundle to match the most extreme change for that release. in between if hte provisioning system is going to do its job, it needs to have different version numbers. Teh .qualifier allows for the auto-qualification of bundle version numbers. The same is true for folks using import/export package. +1 In PDE, I plan on releasing some builder logic to flag exported packages without versions with a warning in M2. API Tooling also has items in plan that deal with package versioning, but that will be post M2 Thoughts for how/if this should be introduced? I say before M2, we formulate a plan across the Eclipse proper projects to deal with versions on package exports. We can than look at pushing that plan to other Eclipse.org projects as a best practice once we get the hang of it. -- Cheers, ~ Chris Aniszczyk_______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev
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