[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-18820?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugi... ] Nick Boldt commented on JBIDE-18820: ------------------------------------ What's wrong with having the version of the parent pom == the version of JBoss Tools recorded in the Base project's Foundation subproject's foundation.core plugin? * for every milestone/maintenance release of JBT, we need to rebuild Base so it stores the correct version in jbosstools.version in the org.jboss.tools.foundation.core plugin (even if NOTHING HAS CHANGED) * similarly, for every milestone/maintenance release of JBDS, we need to rebuild jbdevstudio-product so it stores the correct version in devstudio.version in the com.jboss.devstudio.core.central plugin * for every change to the parent pom / target platform, projects need to update their root pom to pull the latest parent pom, in order to get the correct value of BUILD_ALIAS and ensure they build against the latest target platforms. Benefits to the solution Fred and I worked out yesterday: a) no need to change properties by hand; they're inherited from pom versions we maintain already b) no need to upversion anything under jbosstools-base/foundation or in jbosstools-base/foundation/plugins/org.jboss.tools.foundation.core each time we do a maintenance or milestone release c) projects simply need to keep grabbing the latest parent pom, which they have to already: no new process overhead, nothing new to be forgotten. Single potential side effect: a) If we decide to release maintenance milestones (eg., a 4.2.1.CR1) - which today we *DO NOT DO* - then we would need to ensure that the version of org.jboss.tools.foundation.core is osgi-syntactically larger, because respinning o.j.t.foundation.core 1.1.0.Final with a newer timestamp is OK if the BUILD_ALIAS is Final in both cases, but NOT OK if we move from 1.1.0.Final [old timestamp] to 1.1.0.CR1 [newer timestamp]. In that unlikely scenario, the simple solution is to ensure that o.j.t.foundation.core is moved to version 1.1.1. --- What this solution does NOT address is how we enforce that an update to any part of JBT will pull in an updated version of o.j.t.foundation.core, even if a user only chooses to update a part of the toolset. Therefore Central and Examples need to depend on an explicit MINIMUM version of o.j.t.foundation.core. See JBIDE-18837 for that issue. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.8#6338)