RFR: 6972: Naming and Version Numbering Issues with Plugins

[Virag Purnam]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 07:39:07 GMT, Virag Purnam <duke at openjdk.java.net> wrote:

>> Would we want a qualifier for core? It might be hard to not have a qualifier, if we for example need to provide an updated release build.
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>> Would we want a qualifier for core? It might be hard to not have a qualifier, if we for example need to provide an updated release build.
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> Hi, Sorry for late reply. I was occupied with some work.  Actually Tycho takes care of updating .qualifier with build timestamp. We are not using tycho for building core. We use tycho only for application.

> @viragpurnam how does this change impacts snapshot builds? In this case the `.qualifier` get's replaced with the current build date/time.

Hi @reinhapa, First of all sorry for late reply. Even for snapshot build, .qualifier is not getting replaced with build timestamp. We are not using tycho for building core. ( core -> pom.xml).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jmc/pull/390