I guess a patch release won't even help on this since users would need to install it manually ?
/max http://about.me/maxandersen > On 09.10.2014, at 17:54, Carl Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Folks, > > For WTP 3.6.1 (Luna SR1), we went through a conversion of our build from > CruiseControl/PDE to CBI using Tycho/Maven/Hudson. One of the "benefits" of > doing this is that tagging map files is no longer required- qualifiers are > based off of commit times, not a tag. One of the things we lost was > automated version checking- the Releng team is working on restoring that for > WTP 3.6.2. So for WTP 3.6.1, we did a version check by hand. Mistakes were > made. An example of this is org.eclipse.wst.server_adapters.feature, which > had a version of 3.2.400.v20140501_1027-7L3FJPCcNBHRBuJmLBVNB for WTP 3.6.0 > and 3.2.400.v201405011426 for WTP 3.6.1. Tags such as these were left alone- > obviously the content had not changed in the WTP 3.6.1 release, and the CBI > qualifier appeared to be newer- both are dated May 1, 2014, the PDE tag has a > time stamp of 1027 and the CBI has a time stamp of 1426. However, p2 does > not judge by parsing the time stamp, it compares the strings, and the > underscore in the tag is deemed to be of later value (greater than) the 1 > digit for the CBI time, thus the WTP 3.6.0 features are judged to be "newer". > This can cause some WTP 3.6.0 features to overwrite the WTP 3.6.1 versions, > resulting in a mixed install. Full details of this can be found in > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=446465 . > The question is, what do we do now? And what impact will this have on > adopters? The best place for discussion of that would be > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=446465 - if you have any > questions/comments/concerns/ideas, please add a comment. I have also opened > up four other bugs, linked from that one, to get all of the features in > question to raise their version id for our next WTP release. I apologize for > the inconvenieces that this has caused, but unfortunately things like this > happen when a transition of build systems occurs. > > FWIW, > > - Carl Anderson > WTP Build guy > > _______________________________________________ > wtp-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-dev
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