*Dilan U. Ariyaratne*
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Kishanthan Thangarajah <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Dilan Udara Ariyaratne <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Azeez,
>>
>> Even with the pom based approach (as noted by Kishanthan), we do not have
>> the luxury of totally getting rid of this file, carbon.product
>>
>
> I believe this is only needed at product build time, so we do not need to
> keep a file in the repo but only create the file during build time and then
> delete it (or may be use the target directory so that it will be anyway
> removed).
>
+1 to create the file at target directory during build time, I just tested
the implementation and it works fine. So, in going forward, we can
deprecate the static carbon.product file that exists in distribution folder
of the repo.

>
> since both underlying, but external tycho and equinox launcher plug-ins
>> used by our carbon-feature-plugin require this file as an input.
>>
>> So IMO, the only improvement that we can introduce here is supporting
>> templated-dynamic-creation of the file at carbon-feature-plugin level
>> using the standard carbon kernel version values available in the
>> distribution pom.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dilan.
>>
>> *Dilan U. Ariyaratne*
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> WSO2 Inc. <http://wso2.com/>
>> Mobile: +94766405580 <%2B94766405580>
>> lean . enterprise . middleware
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Kishanthan Thangarajah <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would suggest totally getting rid of it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> To maintain backward compatibility of the plugin, we need to have the
>>> file based supported. But from next major release of the plugin, we can
>>> remove the usage of this file and use the pom based approach only.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:24 PM, KasunG Gajasinghe <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> +1. carbon.product file hasn't really been used by the products. So,
>>>>> +1 to make it optional.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Dilan Udara Ariyaratne <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the process of building C5, we currently require carbon.product
>>>>>> for the following goals.
>>>>>> [1] publish-product
>>>>>> [2] generate-runtime
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This file maintains current version of the carbon kernel to be
>>>>>> utilized by "carbon-feature-plugin" in the build process.
>>>>>> Keeping this value in carbon.product prevents the kernel from been
>>>>>> auto-released as it requires manual intervention to bump
>>>>>> version values as necessary during the release process.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In order to solve this issue, we are currently in the process of
>>>>>> improving Carbon-Feature-Plugin to dynamically create this file during
>>>>>> build time using
>>>>>> a template where the necessary version value information is read from
>>>>>> corresponding distribution pom file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In order to support backward compatibility, we will still maintain
>>>>>> the original approach of keeping a carbon.product file somewhere
>>>>>> appropriate
>>>>>> in the distribution folder and read it accordingly when
>>>>>> <productConfigurationFile> tag is present in the pom file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the meantime, as the way to go forward, we will introduce the
>>>>>> following.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Carbon-Feature-Plugin will be updated to read version and other
>>>>>> optional values that were originally persisted in the file, from the pom
>>>>>> itself.
>>>>>> After reading these values, plugin will dynamically create the
>>>>>> carbon.product which will then be taken into reference by underlying
>>>>>> eclipse.tycho plugin as in the usual way of execution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WDYT ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank You.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Dilan U. Ariyaratne*
>>>>>> Senior Software Engineer
>>>>>> WSO2 Inc. <http://wso2.com/>
>>>>>> Mobile: +94766405580 <%2B94766405580>
>>>>>> lean . enterprise . middleware
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