[jbosstools-dev] Question of the day: How to find out which version of a plugin we have in target platform

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

> Well, you could look in the target platform itself to see what's included:
> 
> http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/target-platform/latest/plugins/
> 
> (yet another reason why an update site is WAY BETTER than a .target file)

No, the updatesite gives no extra information - and especially with updatesites
disappearing/being reaaranged multiple times more than a few times  i'm still
using .target as the only true messenger.

It does not say *why* and *what* is actually ending up in the distribution.

/max

> 
> Nick
> 
> On 05/31/2011 04:25 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>> In context of XXX Rob was asking what version of WTP we are using.
>> 
>> That is best found by looking in the build/target-platform/*.target files (they list the exact feature versions we extract)
>> or the less precise but kinda close list of requirement folders listed in http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/helios/compositeArtifacts.xml
>> 
>> But that doesn't actually help when you want to check what version of org.eclipse.jst.common.frameworks
>> will end up in the distro since this plugin is not listed in any feature as far as Rob and I can see.
>> 
>> So, beyond just *hoping* the right plugin gets into the build what is the better/best way of checking this (beyond
>> downloading additional 4-600 MB of builds to see what is in the resulting binary) ?
>> 
>> /max
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>> 
>> 
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