[jbosstools-dev] Who uses .target file?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

you forgot to cc jbosstools-dev. fixed ;)

> On 03/15/2012 11:36 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>> Don't understand this - having it on an updatesite does not restrict the versions. Feature's neither since they resolve with version ranges. target files can be used to *fixate* the version, making it deterministic.
> 
> The idea here is to fixate the version of plugins and features we want to fixate in the site. It is possible to write a site.xml with a given version of a feature (not 0.0.0 or x.y.z.qualifier, but 3.1.0.v20120316) and also to write feature.xml with explicit versions of plugins.
> Then Tycho does not resolve a feature range or a wildcard version, it simply takes the one that is defined in the site.xml or feature.xml.

That is fine for generating the updatesite - but this does not control the resolution of features/plugins when actually building with tycho.

/max