Because we have to scan for references to SNAPSHOTs each time we have  
to do a release. People are bound to forget.

On Sep 25, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Steven Harris wrote:

> It won't be all modules. only the ones that have changed. A released
> module should
> have no dependencies on snapshots. Why do you think it is iffy?
>
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Juris Galang wrote:
>
>> Feels kinda iffy that we have to go through and un-SNAPSHOT our
>> modules every release/code-freeze time.
>>
>> We could bring back the snapshot repository to simplify things; but
>> that would mean we'd be locked in a mode where the user is either
>> working with snapshots or not - though I think this might not be a
>> bad thing;
>>
>> Eugene pointed out however that some users could find it useful to
>> mix-and-match --- question is: would this be the more common use  
>> case?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 25, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Eugene Kuleshov wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   I had somehow lengthy discussion with Juris about config modules,
>>> versions and dependency resolution.
>>>
>>>   Recently added default modules that are specified in tc.properties
>>> made whole picture little more messy, especially if take Maven into
>>> the
>>> equation.
>>>
>>>   To summarize, DSO configuration modules that are used at runtime
>>> can
>>> come from several places:
>>>
>>> -- l1.configbundles.default entry in tc.properties:
>>> l1.configbundles.default =
>>> excludes-config;guimodels-config;jdk15-preinst-config;spring-
>>> config;standard-config
>>>
>>> -- modules declared in tc-config.xml
>>>     <modules>
>>>       <module name="clustered-ehcache-1.3" version="1.0.0"/>
>>>     </modules>
>>>
>>> -- transitive dependencies listed in manifest.mf of any other  
>>> module.
>>> Foe example for clustered-hibernate-3.1.2 we currently have:
>>>   Bundle-SymbolicName: org.terracotta.modules.clustered-
>>> hibernate-3.1.2
>>>   Bundle-Version: 1.0.0
>>>   Require-Bundle: org.terracotta.modules.modules_common,
>>>      org.terracotta.modules.clustered-cglib-2.1.3
>>>
>>>   If you think about above examples, they leave lots of assumptions
>>> about what modules versions should be used and it could lead to some
>>> nasty issues at the runtime.
>>>
>>>   For some reason I thought it been agreed that we should always
>>> explicitly specify all versions and also use -SNAPSHOTS between
>>> releases, but it doesn't seem like it been changed in existing
>>> modules,
>>> except that tcbuild is adding -SNAPSHOT suffix to the nightly build
>>> jars
>>> deployed to maven repo.
>>>
>>>   So, above configuration snippets should be changed as the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> l1.configbundles.default =
>>> excludes-config,1.0.0-SNAPSHOT;guimodels-config,1.0.0-
>>> SNAPSHOT;jdk15-preinst-config,1.0.0-SNAPSHOT;spring-config,1.0.0-
>>> SNAPSHOT;standard-config,1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
>>>
>>>   Bundle-SymbolicName: org.terracotta.modules.clustered-
>>> hibernate-3.1.2
>>>   Bundle-Version: 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
>>>   Require-Bundle:
>>> org.terracotta.modules.modules_common;bundle-
>>> version="1.0.0.SNAPSHOT",
>>>
>>> org.terracotta.modules.clustered-cglib-2.1.3;bundle-
>>> version="1.0.0.SNAPSHOT"
>>>
>>>   note that we can't use "-" for SNAPSHOT suffix in the bundle
>>> version,
>>> because OSGi prohibits that, so we may need some mapping in our
>>> module
>>> jar resolver code.
>>>
>>>   Then at release/code freeze time someone will have to do a quite
>>> verbose operation and change all those versions to the release
>>> versions.
>>>
>>>   Any thoughts?
>>>
>>>   regards,
>>>   Eugene
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> tc-dev mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://lists.terracotta.org/mailman/listinfo/tc-dev
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> tc-dev mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> http://lists.terracotta.org/mailman/listinfo/tc-dev
>
> _______________________________________________
> tc-dev mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.terracotta.org/mailman/listinfo/tc-dev

_______________________________________________
tc-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.terracotta.org/mailman/listinfo/tc-dev

Reply via email to