[jbosstools-dev] How should we deal with components of projects which have not changed since JBT 4.1.0.Final (eg., jbosstools-base/runtime) ?

In looking at the JBT 4.1.1.Alpha2 build [1], I see that some features have not yet changed since JBT 4.1.0.Final [2]. This is fine for a project like GWT or Freemarker, where the entire project is versioned the same way and we can simply include the previous .Final release, but for a subcomponent of a project, like the runtime component in jbosstools-base [3], this presents a question. [1] http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/core/4.1.kepler/ [2] http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/kepler/ [3] http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/staging/jbosstools-base_41/al... Currently, the base build [3] is producing this plugin: org.jboss.tools.runtime.core 2.1.0.Alpha2-v20130927-0137-B114 But the JBT 4.1.1.Alpha2 build [1] contains this version, which is code-wise identical except for the qualifier change in the manifest. org.jboss.tools.runtime.core 2.1.0.Final-v20130717-0450-B102 Where it becomes an issue is that when we start building 4.1.1.Final in November, we will be including both 2.1.0.Final-v20130717-0450-B102 (from JBT 4.1.0.Final) and 2.1.0.Final-v20131200-0000-Bxxx (from JBT 4.1.1.Final). Since these are bitwise identical, there's no point making users update from an identical feature or plugin to a newer identical version. So how do we prevent the build from including a newer-versioned but identical feature or plugin? The only thing I can currently think of is to *exclude* these features from the base_41 update site [3] so that only the older version from [2] will be included. This is basically the process I used to build JBT 4.1.0.1 - I excluded everything from jbosstools-central's site/category.xml except the feature which had actually changed [4]. [4] https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central/commit/16279020cbf872f4e... Looking for feedback here -- is this a good idea? -- Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio http://nick.divbyzero.com