[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-12963) allow projects to override BUILD_ALIAS without referring to a non-existent target platform definition

allow projects to override BUILD_ALIAS without referring to a non-existent target platform definition ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-12963 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12963 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Bug Components: Build/Releng, modeshape, target-platform Affects Versions: 4.0.0.CR1 Reporter: Nick Boldt Assignee: Nick Boldt Fix For: 4.0.0.CR1 Modeshape sets their own BUILD_ALIAS, eg., Beta5 (while JBoss Tools is still on Beta1 or Beta2). The result of this is: {code:title=https://jenkins.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com/hudson/job/modeshape-tools-continuous/44/console} [ERROR] Internal error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not resolve target platform specification artifact org.jboss.tools.target-platforms.jbosstools-JunoSR1a:jenkins:target:jenkins:4.0.0.Beta5-SNAPSHOT -> [Help 1] {code} So, to fix this, we can externalize ${JBT_VERSION}.${BUILD_ALIAS}-SNAPSHOT as used in the parent pom to a new variable, TARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION, which would then allow BUILD_ALIAS to be set independently. Thus the job would run with: {code} -DBUILD_ALIAS=Beta5 -DTARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION=4.0.0.Beta2-SNAPSHOT {code}