Important info regarding building eclipse plugin

[Sachin Patel <sp...@gmail.com>]

FYI.

WTP and Eclipse have introduced into their builds a new concept of a  
"qualifer".  This "qualifier" is basically a time-date stamp that  
gets appended to the plugin jar version during their build for any  
plugin that has changed
in that build.  This means that no 2 builds will have the same jar  
versions.  So unlike before, the geronimo plugin could build against  
any 1.0.x level of WTP.  This is no longer true and until I find a  
more appropriate flexible solution, the build is now binded to a  
given driver.

So from a users perspective wanting to build, this has minimum  
impact.  Building with "maven build" will automatically download the  
necessary drivers.  The only impact is they will no longer be able to  
use the eclipse.home property to point to their own version of  
eclipse to build against.

- sachin

Re: Important info regarding building eclipse plugin

[Sachin Patel <sp...@gmail.com>]

- sachin



On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:43 PM, Donald Woods wrote:

> What does this mean to end-users who only want to use a pre-built  
> Eclipse plug-in downloaded from the Devtools website?

No affect.

> Will they have to use the exact level of WTP that was used to build  
> the plug-in?

No.

>
> -Donald
>
>
> Sachin Patel wrote:
>> FYI.
>> WTP and Eclipse have introduced into their builds a new concept of  
>> a "qualifer".  This "qualifier" is basically a time-date stamp  
>> that gets appended to the plugin jar version during their build  
>> for any plugin that has changed
>> in that build.  This means that no 2 builds will have the same jar  
>> versions.  So unlike before, the geronimo plugin could build  
>> against any 1.0.x level of WTP.  This is no longer true and until  
>> I find a more appropriate flexible solution, the build is now  
>> binded to a given driver.
>> So from a users perspective wanting to build, this has minimum  
>> impact.  Building with "maven build" will automatically download  
>> the necessary drivers.  The only impact is they will no longer be  
>> able to use the eclipse.home property to point to their own  
>> version of eclipse to build against.
>> - sachin

Re: Important info regarding building eclipse plugin

[Donald Woods <dr...@yahoo.com>]

What does this mean to end-users who only want to use a pre-built 
Eclipse plug-in downloaded from the Devtools website?
Will they have to use the exact level of WTP that was used to build the 
plug-in?

-Donald


Sachin Patel wrote:
> FYI.
> 
> WTP and Eclipse have introduced into their builds a new concept of a 
> "qualifer".  This "qualifier" is basically a time-date stamp that gets 
> appended to the plugin jar version during their build for any plugin 
> that has changed
> in that build.  This means that no 2 builds will have the same jar 
> versions.  So unlike before, the geronimo plugin could build against any 
> 1.0.x level of WTP.  This is no longer true and until I find a more 
> appropriate flexible solution, the build is now binded to a given driver.
> 
> So from a users perspective wanting to build, this has minimum impact.  
> Building with "maven build" will automatically download the necessary 
> drivers.  The only impact is they will no longer be able to use the 
> eclipse.home property to point to their own version of eclipse to build 
> against.
> 
> - sachin
> 
> 
>