[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-10312) Define a minimal target platform as opposed to the recommend one we have now for builds

[Nick Boldt (Commented) (JIRA)]

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Nick Boldt commented on JBIDE-10312:
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So when you say "minimal" you don't mean minimal size / fewest IUs, but *oldest compatible version level*? 

eg., we COULD be building against Indigo SR0 instead of SR1 or SR2, but we tend to build against the latest/greatest available in order to stay current w/ the latest upstream releases and be able to feedback to upstream / get fixes in upstream.

Would simply building against an older version of the TP be sufficient? For example...

http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/target-platform_3.3.indigo/e370-wtp330.target.zip
http://www.qa.jboss.com/binaries/RHDS/updates/jbds-target-platform_3.3.indigo/jbds500-e370-wtp330.target.zip


                
> Define a minimal target platform as opposed to the recommend one we have now for builds
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>
>                 Key: JBIDE-10312
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-10312
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Build/Releng
>            Reporter: Max Rydahl Andersen
>            Assignee: Nick Boldt
>            Priority: Critical
>
> Seeing JBIDE-10311 made me realize that we actually could catch these by having a *minimal* target platform to either build or test against.
> The problem here is that a plugin got a plugin dependency based on the target platform - but the target platform have the latest 3.7.1 version meaning those users running 3.7.0 would have problems installing it.
> If we had a minimal target platform (.target) we could actually install/verify these issues against it.
> Not necessarily every night - but like once a week run the build or install the updatesite against the minimal target platform would
> reveal these dependency issues.
> WDYT?

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