[orbit-dev] Orbit contribute directly to simrel

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello folks,

We have a number of projects who are contributing old orbit content to simrel. In fact Mylyn's current contribution to simrel of com.sun.xml.bind 2.2.0 appears to be an old one and now causes simrel to be broken. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=568379#c33

My proposed fix for this is that Orbit starts enforcing that the current version of bundles are the ones that make it into simrel. As such I have done that with https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/simrel/org.eclipse.simrel.build/+/172825 which I hope will solve the problem.

This same solution will also let me fully remove birt from simrel as at the moment WTP depends on com.google.protobuf, but the only current contribution to simrel of that bundle is BIRT and that bundle is old with a signature. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=568136

Please let me know if you have any concerns about this. Or even better a +1 if you think this is a good idea.

However, until Orbit also stops publishing jars with different signatures but same qualifier we may find it difficult to get rid of all the old/bad signatures in simrel as I don't think the tools today can enforce which p2 repo an identically versioned bundle comes from. I hope this can be improved with a combination of moving all Orbit to git and the great work being done to move Simrel to tycho.

Thanks

Jonah

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com