Re: [jbosstools-dev] Required bundles and version restriction

It's always better to be explicit, because in plugin manifests "0.4.0" means "0.4.0+" and in feature manifests (feature.xml) it means "[0.4.0,1.0.0)". This is easy to forget, which is why I recommend being explicit, or else bookmarking this blog: http://divby0.blogspot.ca/2011/07/manifestmf-and-featurexml-versioning.html

:D On 10/04/2013 09:23 AM, Mickael Istria wrote: > On 10/04/2013 02:09 PM, Martin Malina wrote: >> in >> https://github.com/jboss-reddeer/reddeer/blob/master/plugins/org.jboss.re... > Keep in mind that "0.4.0" means [0.4.0, 2147483647.2147483647.2147483647]. > Eclipse guidelines say that since only major version bump should cause > API incompatibility, it's better to use ranges such as "[0.4.0,1.0.0)" > since 1.0.0 and later wouldn't be compatible with 0.x. > >> The reasoning for this version setting is to eliminate the risk of >> mixing different versions of RedDeer bundles that you may have >> installed in your local repository. What do you think about this? I >> didn't see any such thing in jbosstools source so I wonder if this is >> a real threat. > On the other end, it prevents any of this bundle to run with older > version of RedDeer, even if it's possible to mix them. It's a trade-off > between modularity and compatibility > As we usually ship bundles in features, and that features contain the > exact qualified version of the bundles to install, adding these > constraints is not very helpful for the normal installation scenario as > features provide much stricter constraints. However, if you don't use > feature includes, and only rely on feature "imports" and MANIFEST.MF > Require-Bundle to resolve dependencies, such change gives good hints. > > Anyway, that's a very good question you have there, and there is a very > elegant answer in PDE: http://www.eclipse.org/pde/pde-api-tools/ . With > API Tools enabled in your IDE, you'll be able to annotate your APIs and > PDE will give you hints on how to deal with versions compared to a > baseline, depending on the API change you make. Also, if you depend on > newer APIs from another bundle, it will tell you to change the version > in your dependencies to the minimal version which provides this API. > > HTH > -- > Mickael Istria > Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools> > My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets > <http://twitter.com/mickaelistria> > > > _______________________________________________ > jbosstools-dev mailing list > jbosstools-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbosstools-dev > -- Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio http://nick.divbyzero.com _______________________________________________ jbosstools-dev mailing list jbosstools-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbosstools-dev