Re: [tycho-user] Why is Tycho manifest-first?

[Eric Gwin <eric.gwin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Maybe one of the drawbacks of p2 repositories is you can't distinguish between releases and snapshots
You can if the P2 repos is release, milestone, or snapshot specific.

> On 11/16/2011 10:09 PM, Igor Fedorenko wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > 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,
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > 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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> > > /max
> > > http://about.me/maxandersen
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