Ok, I was trying to understand what you meant by "open the ranges". That is, if you wanted us (Eclipse) to open some ranges (which we can't do for the reasons I said), or if you want to open them in your product.
>From a p2 POV, this is doable. p2 doesn't care. However, the tooling seems to be lacking. A quick search through the Eclipse bug DB shows this request [1]. [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=292542 However, you might be able to simulate this by creating a single feature, and having that feature 'depend' on the features you need. In feature dependencies, you could define the range there. Hope that helps, Cheers Ian On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Cortell John-RAT042 <[email protected]>wrote: > I was interested in whether we technically could do what I described, > not whether we should. Your first sentence implies we can, but your second > expresses doubt. If not via the product editor, then how/where can these > ranges be expressed? I’ve never assembled a product so unfortunately I may > be asking a dumb question here. Our product engineering team has told me > it’s not possible to specify a range for the platform IUs. I’m trying to > find out if that’s so.**** > > ** ** > > To answer your question, no; it would not be OK if the launchers didn’t > match the rest of the platform. The point would be to leave open all the > platform IU ranges (or at least open them somewhat—allow, e.g., a later > build of the same major/minor combination). The automated tests would not > be run against a random configuration, as the tests will update the > platform in its entirety to a specific internal platform build. Also, the > user scenario is not one that is applicable to us.**** > > ** ** > > John**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Ian Bull > *Sent:* Thursday, March 08, 2012 2:36 PM > *To:* P2 developer discussions > *Subject:* Re: [p2-dev] platform IU ranges in a product definition**** > > ** ** > > In your product, feel free to do whatever you wish. I'm not sure if the > product editor supports version ranges or not.**** > > ** ** > > However, a few Eclipse components specified ranges for 'include' > dependencies a few years ago and this lead to a number of problems. > Namely, there is no rhyme or reason to what you will get, that is, you > will just get the flavour of the week. The automated tests will run against > some (random) configuration of software, and your users will get another > (different) configuration. It all depends what IUs happen to be around at > that point in time.**** > > ** ** > > Just in your example below, would it be ok if the launchers didn't match > the version of platform? Will that work?**** > > ** ** > > Cheers,**** > > Ian**** > > ** ** > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Cortell John-RAT042 <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Our commercial product's root p2 product metadata specifies a specific > build (XYZ) of various platform IUs for both the bottom and top of the > version range (see below an excerpt from our <number>.profile). I'm being > told it's impossible to open up the version range of these platform IUs. > I'm requesting that the top range be opened up to allow our automated > testing scripts to update the platform (among other things) in a product > build via p2 in order to test that newer version of the platform. I have > already determined that this sort of update is possible by manually opening > up the ranges in the .profile with a text editor. > > Is it true that the root product metadata cannot be assembled in a way > that has an open top version range for these platform IUs? > > John > > <unit id='com.acme.someproduct' version='1.1.0'> > <update id='com.acme.someproduct' range='0.0.0' severity='0'/> > ... > <requires size='37'> > <required namespace='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu' > name='org.eclipse.equinox.launcher' range='[XYZ,XYZ]'/> > <required namespace='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu' > name='org.eclipse.platform.feature.group' range='[XYZ,XYZ]'/> > <required namespace='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu' > name='org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86' range='[XYZ,XYZ]'> > ... > > _______________________________________________ > p2-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev**** > > > > **** > > ** ** > > -- > R. Ian Bull | EclipseSource Victoria | +1 250 477 7484 > http://eclipsesource.com | http://twitter.com/eclipsesource**** > > _______________________________________________ > p2-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev > > -- R. Ian Bull | EclipseSource Victoria | +1 250 477 7484 http://eclipsesource.com | http://twitter.com/eclipsesource
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