> Orbit essentially is like
Maven Central
In that case I don't understand why
do we need Orbit at all. With the
latest announcements regarding tycho
capabilities from Christoph + lack
of resources to support Orbit in
safe form it seems to be useless.
You have hit the nail on the
head! Although useless is going a little
far. Orbit does not likely have a long
term future. However as there are many
projects that build from it still we need
it. Also there is a problem if multiple
projects start contributing the same
version of third party lib that will
hopefully be solved in the future with PGP
signing.
Orbit should not be directly
contributing to simrel, but for a variety
of reasons it does (see comments in the
file)
As mentioned in the Gerrit,
passage's p2 repo should be publishing its
third party deps and it should be possible
for consumers to install passage from
passage's p2 repo without requiring an
orbit repo be added too.
I know for sure that
numerous projects are not quite doing that
(again see comments in orbit.aggrcon) but
hopefully at some point the temporary
contribution of orbit to simrel directly
can be removed.