Improve new release build process

[Ivan]

Building a new release requires editing more than 10 different files to increment the plugin released version so Eclipse can perform an update of installed plugins.

Required modifications can be seen on this changeset [5947] from version 0.0.2 to 0.0.3.

Manually editing all these files is hard and error prone so it would be nice to have an script that can perform a version upgrade of pom and manifest files.

[anonymous]

Hi!

I don't know about the Maven-files but you don't have to manually edit the Plugin-Files. Just change the version number in the feature an on the Overview-Page of the manifest-editor click on: "1. Synchronize version of contained plugins.... " In the popup-dialog choose the third option: "Force feature version into plugins and fragment manifests"

[Ivan]

Replying to anonymous:

Overview-Page of the manifest-editor click on: "1. Synchronize version of contained plugins.... "

Thanks

this is already an improvement but still need a lot of editing of pom and some plugin files.

Let's see how can I combine this with maven release plugin.

Regards
Ivan

[Ivan]

Build was automated for incremental builds by combining maven SNAPSHOT and eclipse .qualifier ​http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Tycho+SNAPSHOT+and+qualifier+version+expansion

see [6130] for changeset details

hand editing pom and manifes files is only required between point releases which is also susceptible to be improved