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Bug 321682 - Relax feature version range policy to pde.match.rule.feature=compatible
Summary: Relax feature version range policy to pde.match.rule.feature=compatible
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 409787
Alias: None
Product: ECF
Classification: RT
Component: ecf.releng (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Markus Kuppe CLA
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Depends on: 327163
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Reported: 2010-08-04 04:26 EDT by Markus Kuppe CLA
Modified: 2014-02-12 14:50 EST (History)
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differences in p2 metadata (12.57 KB, application/octet-stream)
2010-08-12 08:16 EDT, Markus Kuppe CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Markus Kuppe CLA 2010-08-04 04:26:05 EDT 
The currently implemented version range policy in ECF is quite strict ("perfect") [0]. To allow for easier consumption, it should be changed to "compatible" instead.

The whole issue of feature version ranges is rather controversial [1] though and thus we might want to raise a discussion (on the rt-pmc ml) first?!

[0] https://bugs.eclipse.org/309147
[1] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/pde-dev/msg01799.html
Comment 1 Scott Lewis CLA 2010-08-09 13:59:23 EDT 
+1 for changing version range policy for ECF features to 'compatible'.
Comment 2 Markus Kuppe CLA 2010-08-10 03:20:28 EDT 
FWIW: ECF build has been changed to use "compatible" instead of "perfect" for now.
Comment 3 Markus Kuppe CLA 2010-08-10 03:31:27 EDT 
A RT discussion has been started about this change [0].

[0] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/rt-pmc/msg01973.html
Comment 4 Markus Kuppe CLA 2010-08-12 08:16:25 EDT 
Created attachment 176459 [details]
differences in p2 metadata
Comment 5 Markus Kuppe CLA 2010-08-12 08:18:21 EDT 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=176459) [details]
> differences in p2 metadata

This attachment contains two different versions of the SLP feature p2 metadata (just diff/compare to see the changes). slp-old.xml has been generated with "perfect", slp-new.xml with "compatible".
Comment 6 Scott Lewis CLA 2014-02-12 14:50:56 EST 
This being done as part of refactoring effort in bug 409787

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 409787 ***