Re: [egit-dev] Tycho Build for EGit

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason van Zyl <jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, so what we have in 0.6.0 of Tycho is the ability to have a mixed  
> mode of manifest-first (MF) and pom-first (PF) projects. It will be up  
> to you guys what you want visa-vis jgit vs egit and what you want to be 
> MF vs PF .  We can do anything at this point with Tycho. For pom-first 
> projects this simply means you create a manifest in some fashion and it's 
> packaged with JAR that's produced.
>
> Tycho can now absorb any bundle regardless of P2 metadata being present, 
> we just generate it on the fly if necessary. Igor already has a full MF 
> build it just needs to be updated. So if you guys figure out what you 
> would like we'll do it.

OK, so my problem is, I understand how a pom works, but I don't get
how the dependency system in an OSGi bundle works.  Thus right now
I have to lean towards a pom first approach for both projects.

But this is strictly based on my own ignorance.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.