| Re: [m2e-dev] Need help in opening m2e project in eclipse |
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 7:42 PM Fred Bricon <fbricon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
- the pomless experiment (removing the simplest pom.xmls): makes it impossible to import all the projects as maven projects. Plenty projects are missing
That's indeed an issue. We'll add the .project files.
- The .project files must come from somewhere and they must be maintained.
- The simple pom.xml files before made it possible for me to load most of the projects as maven projects before
and you didn't have to maintain .project files in addition
that can get out of date.
Maybe it was just too early for going pomless?
- Situation sounds like a classic regression to me. M2e core can't load m2e-core project any more.
May indicate a missing test. Is there some integration test that loads the m2e project itself?
That can provide a base line that should not be lost.
- If that baseline (integration test loading m2e project itself ) can be advanced - perhaps
in a separate feature branch - to support pomless m2e-core: Maybe migrate slowly, make support for that part of
the 2021-06 but switch m2e project to pomless after that.
- undocumented dependencies (PDE, Lemminx, Eclipse tests ..., )
We need a working .target file, but the m2e-maven-runtime stuff makes it complicated to write a good portable target file that uses local build of those bundles.
I felt the need for a working .target file myself.
(Currently erefactor uses the target platform but I was told to
strip away bundles and that would reduce the target platform as I
understand it.)
Is it necessary to have a single .target that fits all?
Would it be useful to have 2-3 different ones?
One for the casual developer, that just needs a working dependency tree for development version:
May be OK to have target file point to specific nightly/weekly/what ever remote dev builds of the dependencies with information
how to update if the remote site is garbage collected. Replace deps with stable ones when possible.
One for the "full stack" developer that needs HEAD versions of the lemminx etc. deps locally.
Tell how to layout the different working copies and what to do
to make this target file happy.
Can some of that being scripted?
HTH,
Cal
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