allow to define target filename in tpd file

[Pontesegger]

I would love to have a feature to define the name of the target file.

Tycho needs a target file to be named .target
So I would like to create several tpd files in my project which would overwrite the same target file. This would allow to switch the build target quite easily, without renaming/moving files around.

[mduft]

Nice Idea, actually. Would have some use for that also

[mbarbero]

Hi Christian and Markus,

This sounds compelling but I think it may be dangerous to have several tpdfiles which would override a single targetfile. You will never know which target you will compile against on your continuous integration server (it will depends on the last generation...).

Otherwise, the feature by itself seems legitimate. How would you see the specification of the target file name? A popup when you call the generation of the .target? I would prefer not to do that in the language itself, as this is more a configuration of each run rather than something that should be hardcoded in the file instance.

[Pontesegger]

I would prefer to have it in the language. Maybe we could have a
defaultFilename "Whatever_target_I_like.target" which populates an input dialog?

Typing stuff all the time is basically the same effort as renaming files after creation.

[Bananeweizen]

I'm wondering why you don't simply use Maven profiles to solve this issue? I mean, you are not switching the build target interactively when running those Tycho builds, or are you?