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Re: [tycho-user] Why is Tycho manifest-first?
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FWIW, latest m2e-tycho lets you work on pom-first projects using Eclipse
PDE without additional overhead either, so I would not use this to
choose between pom-first and manifest first.
The real difference comes from dependencies. If most of project
dependencies come from p2 repositories, then manifest-first makes
dependency resolution easier, if not the only viable option. If,
however, all project dependencies are available from Maven repositories,
then pom-first works much better.
Developer background and personal preferences also play a role here.
Personally, I find it easier to have bundle manifest generated for me,
but I know other developers prefer maintaing manifests by hand. One
of the crazier ideas I recently had was to rework Eclipse Platform build
using pom-first approach, so that entire eclipse platform becomes
natively available from a Maven repository. I gave up on this idea
mostly because I did not see how to convince platform developers let a
tool generate bundle manifests for them.
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Regards,
Igor
On 11-11-16 2:57 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
…manifest-first makes it much easier to migrate to from PDE-build and still be able to work with Eclipse PDE without additional overhead.
/max
On Nov 14, 2011, at 22:14, Aaron Digulla wrote:
Hello,
I'm wondering why you're using p2 technology (with all it's drawbacks) instead of using Maven's fast&reliable dependency resolution to create a MANIFEST.MF from that?
Wouldn't it be much more simple to add a manifest builder plugin which I can configure from a POM that produces a MANIFEST.MF?
Regards,
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Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark
"It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination.
Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits."
http://blog.pdark.de/
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