Description Carsten Hammer 2020-09-05 11:32:08 EDT

On a fresh oomph based checkout of jdt.ui I have errors like this:

"Non-resolvable parent POM for eclipse.jdt.ui:eclipse.jdt.ui:4.18.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact org.eclipse:eclipse-platform-parent:pom:4.18.0-SNAPSHOT and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong 
 local POM" 

as soon as I open a pom file.
One problem seems to be that there are no maven projects, every project is a plain eclipse plugin project, feature and so on and trying to right mouse click on a pom file like this

maven-> Select Maven Profiles

does not work because of the error "You must select at least one active maven project".
Without that I cannot activate the profile "build-individual-bundles" which is the only chance to resolve the dependency to the parent pom. Either that or eclipse should start to deploy the parent pom and some other needed poms to maven central.

I can workaround creating the following .m2/settings.xml

<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
                              https://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
	<localRepository/>
	<interactiveMode/>
	<offline/>
	<pluginGroups/>
	<servers/>
	<mirrors/>
	<proxies/>
	<profiles/>
	<activeProfiles>
		<activeProfile>build-individual-bundles</activeProfile>
	</activeProfiles>
</settings>

However, that seems to be awkward - it should work without having the other eclipse projects already on the harddisk and in my .m2 folder.