>
When Maven Central is not OSGi artifact Orbit will be
preferred.
I can only encourage everyone to open a ticket for such
project and help
them to include OSGi meta-data in the first place instead
of putting the
effort else-where, as adding those does not harm the
project but helps
integration it with just a few extra lines in the
manifest.
Am 05.04.22 um 13:48 schrieb Aleksandar Kurtakov:
> Hey everyone,
> With PGP signing support, latest Tycho work and M2E
extending PDE so
> *.target files can refer/use dependencies from Maven
Central directly
> will prefer to use dependencies from Maven Central
when updating to new
> versions of libraries.
> This would be done only when we update to a new
version of libraries or
> the dependency we use is no longer available in the
latest Orbit build.
> When Maven Central is not OSGi artifact Orbit will
be preferred.
> From releng POV it would simply remove the middle
man (Orbit/EBR) as
> Tycho automates what was achieved via EBR as an
intermediate step to be
> part of the regular build.
> Extra benefits are:
> * Eclipse will no longer ship modified version of
upstream release (PGP
> signature is in p2 metadata and not modifying the jar
as jarsigner does)
> * Eclipse will not longer ship bundles with symbolic
names that do not
> match upstream developers decision (as it happens
with number of Orbit
> artifacts)
> * Version updates could be done in chunks rather than
all changes at
> once to work with latest Orbit
>
> I strongly encourage other projects to take that path
too for third
> party dependencies.
>
>
> --
> Aleksandar Kurtakov
> Red Hat Eclipse Team
>
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