I'm trying to run EASE locally from eclipse and here are my current steps.
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.maven.execution.MavenSession.getRepositorySession()Lorg/sonatype/aether/RepositorySystemSession;
at org.eclipse.tycho.core.maven.utils.PluginRealmHelper.execute(PluginRealmHelper.java:92)
at org.eclipse.tycho.p2.resolver.P2TargetPlatformResolver.getDependencyMetadata(P2TargetPlatformResolver.java:144)
at org.eclipse.tycho.p2.resolver.P2TargetPlatformResolver.setupProjects(P2TargetPlatformResolver.java:126)
at org.eclipse.tycho.core.resolver.DefaultTychoDependencyResolver.setupProject(DefaultTychoDependencyResolver.java:87)
at org.eclipse.tycho.core.maven.TychoMavenLifecycleParticipant.afterProjectsRead(TychoMavenLifecycleParticipant.java:77)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:317)
Maybe the prob is with the use of space in the location of the git repo, so I will try without (I'm on OSX at the moment)