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Re: [m2e-dev] Wish to contribute an incubating bundle for easier import

On Apr 13, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 04/13/2015 06:06 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
>> Just glancing at the PR I think you will want more than the single activation criterion, that being the presence of a pom.xml file. There are still quite a few people who generate Eclipse metadata using the maven-eclipse-plugin so even though a pom.xml file is present they do not want the project imported with M2Eclipse.
> Is this really a use-case we want/need to support? What are the good reasons for those people to not use m2e?

I always recommend using M2Eclipse but the simple fact is that not everyone does use M2Eclipse

> In case it's already an Eclipse project, those people can use directly "Import existing projects into workspace" if they don't want anything new to happen.

Sure, just as long as the auto import mechanism doesn't do something that confuses users. That's all I'm drawing attention to. So if someone has a large project and generated Eclipse project metadata with the maven-eclipse-plugin then it should not be imported using M2Eclipse by mistake. I think a user would just expect the right thing to happen if they used the detection mechanism. Probably not hard to add a bit of logic to make sure the correct behaviour is applied.

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Thanks,

Jason

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