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Bug 350236

Summary:	Can't specify "use latest version" in category.xml of eclipse-repository
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Tobias Oberlies <t-oberlies>
Component:	Tycho	Assignee:	Tobias Oberlies <t-oberlies>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	christian.k.2510, igor, sascha.scholz
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	342876

Description Tobias Oberlies

2011-06-24 07:23:25 EDT

Unlike the site.xml in eclipse-update-site, the category.xml of eclipse-repository doesn't support the version "0.0.0" as "lastest version". Instead, the Tycho dependency resolver interprets it as version range [0.0.0,0.0.1).

While it may be useful to specify verstions in the category.xml, the more common use case is to take the (latest) versions available in the reactor or target platform.

This bug is fairly severe, because until "0.0.0" is working, the versions or reactor artifacts need to be listed in the category.xml and hence must be adapted for every release.

Comment 1 Tobias Oberlies

2011-07-20 09:47:08 EDT

This bug report is invalid. I overlooked that the problematic project didn't actually specify the version "0.0.0" but rather "0.0.0.qualifier". "0.0.0" is correctly replaced by the latest version (in most cases - see bug 352081). 

"a.b.c.qualifier" seems to be interpreted as range [a.b.c, a.b.c+1)