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Re: [pde-dev] pde build owner?
This leads to the wider question on the future of the PDE build component.

Throughout the years, PDE Build has never been the center of much attention. Now with the overwhelming adoption of Maven/Tycho as technology for headless builds, and the disconnect resulting from what the IDE does and what Tycho does, I think that keeping PDE Build alive is not really helping anyone (for example, when I implemented the support for the new mac layout, I had to modify PDE build in a number of places and this was definitely not fun). Consequently I think we should explore a way to get rid of PDE Build and replace it with Tycho.

When I first started this thought exercise a couple years ago, it seemed complicated (especially to build just one plug-in). However the recent changes in Tycho to support pom-less builds would definitely simplify things.
Of course this would mean shipping Maven (and maybe Tycho) as part of the SDK, but I think the benefits would be:
- consistent story between headless and IDE builds (today there are still disconnects between PDE build and Tycho)
- one codebase to work on with one focus
- potential for improving the sharing of bundles between PDE and Maven

Pascal

On 08/01/2016 9:02 AM, Daniel Megert wrote:
Hi Elena

PDE Build is not getting much love these days. I looked at the change and merged it.

Thanks,
Dani



From:        Alena Laskavaia <elaskavaia.cdt@xxxxxxxxx>
To:        "Eclipse PDE general developers list." <pde-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:        08.01.2016 14:25
Subject:        [pde-dev] pde build owner?
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Any of committees are taking care of pde build now days?
I submitted a 2 line patch and it is sitting there sad
without any comments for 3 weeks...

https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/62984/Bug 432399- [Import/Export] Export feature not exporting empty folders
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