[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-3191) Improve the way we switch between development and GA

[Max Rydahl Andersen (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3191?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13022765#comment-13022765 ] 

Max Rydahl Andersen commented on JBDS-3191:
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No, the suggestion is:

Alice installs JBDS 8.0.0.Beta3 it will default include /updates/8.0 as updatesite since declared in .product file and this updatesite will be empty. No magic needed in p2.inf/feature.xml or .product.

during startup we lookup in ide.properties based on the version you are running and apply settings defined in here. i.e. we could have property to define development sites and a flag for wether they should be on or on. We could even ask the user during startup if he wants to get updates to development content or not..and vice versa, if he ends up upgrading to a GA and we can see he still have the list of sites from the development property installed we can ask if he wants to continue receiving these updates or not - if not, we clear out the development sites from his list of updatesites.

Meaning
* GA users will not see or be affecting of any of this. (only those actually running development versions will see it)
* it does not matter what updatesite you got content from
* none of this affects the build time settings.



> Improve the way we switch between development and GA
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBDS-3191
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3191
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>          Components: build
>            Reporter: Mickael Istria
>             Fix For: 8.0.1.GA
>
>
> JBDS-3190 has shown that there are too many changes to perform when willing to create a GA candidate, and it's almost certain that we'll forever forget to change one or some of them when switching between GA and development stream.
> We need to improve that.
> Changes are necessary in:
> * features/com.jboss.devstudio.core/feature/p2.inf
> * site/associate.properties
> * results/pom.xml
> As an alternative, I suggest that the final site be ALWAYS added to the referenced site, even if it's empty. This has no cost for build nor user, and this would simplify a few things here and there.
> Also, instead of a p2.inf, we could think a a "startup" extension that would add reference to development site in case qualifier for the feature doesn't contain GA.
> The property to the "current site" (GA or development) could be factorized in JBDS parent pom. so that both results/pom.xml and site/pom.xml could use it (instead of associateSites.properties).
> CC [~nickboldt] [~maxandersen]



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