[cbi-dev] Publish eclipse-parent and maven-cbi-plugin to Nexus

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm trying to build the platform by following those instructions: http://wiki.eclipse.org/CBI/Eclipse_Platform_Build#Hard_way
I noticed that each build requires a new build of org.eclipse:eclipse-parent (which should better be named org.eclipse.platform:parent, since there is already an eclipse-parent existing at Nexus) and maven-cbi-plugin.
What about publishing those 2 build requirements to Nexus? We could make a CI job that would publish the parent and the plugin to Nexus, so that all Platform components could consume it just by adding a reference to Nexus in their pom.

We recentrly moved to this approach (publish parent, maven-plugins and target-platforms to Nexus) for JBoss Tools, and we really feel that it makes the build much more modular.

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Mickael Istria
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