Yeah that approach sounds good

On Jan 27, 2017 4:30 PM, "Dilan Udara Ariyaratne" <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> *Dilan U. Ariyaratne*
> Senior Software Engineer
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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/>
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>>>
>>>
>>> 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/>
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