How to keep plug-in manifest version and pom version in sync in Maven with Tycho

Question

I am using Maven with Tycho to build an eclipse plugin. Tycho generates the pom.xml file for Maven by inspecting the manifest file of the plugin. Now both the manifest file and the pom file have the version of the plugin and they need to be kept in sync manually. This is because I have done some customization in the generated pom file and cannot overwrite it every time I change the version in the manifest.

My question here is, is there a way to keep these versions in sync automatically using Tycho?

Answer 1

It seems you can update versions using the tycho-versions-plugin (using tycho 0.14.0 here):

mvn -Dtycho.mode=maven org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-versions-plugin:set-version -DnewVersion=NEW_VERSION-SNAPSHOT

This updates POMs, MANIFESTs and feature.xml