[UIMA-5914] Eclipse Update Site for 2.10.2 needs dist svn tag

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Eclipse plugins
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 29/Nov/18 16:28
• Updated: 29/Nov/18 21:44
• Resolved: 29/Nov/18 21:44

Description

While checking the eclipse update site for uimaj 2.10.3 after jar-signing the plugins/features, I noticed that although the update site has both the 2.10.2 and 2.10.3 jars, the Eclipse FeaturesAndBundlesPublisher only generated the contents/artifacts jars with the metadata for the 2.10.3. This wasn't an issue when running the same process for uv3 3.0.1.

The consequence: when installing, if you uncheck the box to show just the most recent version, the 2.10.2 version doesn't show up.

My educated guess is that this might be caused by having switched the minimum JVM level for 2.10.3 from Java 7 to Java 8, and the Eclispe FeaturesAndBundlesPublisher disallowing mixing of JVM minimum level requirements.

To work around this, I'm planning on doing an "svn tag" on the Eclipse update site for uimaj to create a separately addressable update site for the 2.10.2 (in case anyone needs that). In the news article and website download page, I'll add a note about this.