CI Friendly versions and build of milestones and releases

[cdietrich]

Hi, is it possible to use the CI Friendly versions feature to build maven milestones and release
(e.g. maven version 1.0.0 or 1.0.0.M1)
and still have valid qualifers in osgi bundles
(1.0.0.vtimestamp)

using the ci friendly versions feature as in tycho-its/projects/ci-friendly/buildqualifier
does not seem to work. it will produce invalid manifest

org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Invalid manifest header Bundle-Version: "1.0.0.M1.202303201403" : invalid version "1.0.0.M1.202303201403": invalid qualifier "M1.202303201403"
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.resolver.StateBuilder.createBundleDescription (StateBuilder.java:124)

see also xtext/xtext-monorepo#15
eclipse-xtext/xtext#2135 (comment)

[laeubi]

using the ci friendly versions feature as in tycho-its/projects/ci-friendly/buildqualifier
does not seem to work. it will produce invalid manifest

How do you call it to produce the invalid version? Your description is a bit confusing, because if you mention to produce a M1 version but wanted to have v<timestamp>, while the v<timestamp> is one way to format the qualifier it is not the only "valid" one.

[laeubi]

By the way it would be good if you can submit your example as an integration-test to demonstrate the issue.

[laeubi]

@cdietrich just wondering should a qualifer for Milestone not be 1.0.0-M1?

[cdietrich]

good question. have seen both variants in different projects. we currently do .m1

[laeubi]

At least maven treats everything unknown as a simple string but -alpha -milestone -M ... have special meanings

[laeubi]

Just for your information I have now checked with your example and actually there are two cases:

1. You specify the -Dqualifier then it will be used as is for maven part so I think you not need to use a different variable as it is only maven model
2. You not specify -Dqualifier but -Dtycho.buildqualifier.format=yyyyMMddHHmm then the qualifier maven model variable will get the formatted value of the timestamp provider.

What already would work is performing a release like that:

mvn clean install -DreleaseVersion=1.0.0 -Dqualifier=

this will result in a Bundle version of 1.0.0 and and a pom version of 1.0.0.

What not work (and I tried different combinations of this) is mvn clean install -DreleaseVersion=1.0.0 -Dqualifier=-M1 (or similar), because in that case tycho combines the timestamped value with the maven version and only detects -SNAPSHOT as a special meaning.

I'm currently investigate how to circumvent the problem, what is quite tricky as maven even has the format MAJOR.MINOR.MICRO.BUILD-QUALIFIER