[orbit-dev] Is Orbit for Re-distribution of Bundles Only?

[Christian Damus <cdamus@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

A question has come up in the Modeling project that I'd like to survey the
Orbit team on.

The Modeling project's common build infrastructure wants to use the
"ant-contrib" third-party extensions to Ant.  Basic Ant is maintained in
Orbit and redistributed by Eclipse Platform project.

The wrinkle for Modeling is that it does not need to redistribute
ant-contrib in any builds, but simply to use it in scripting its builds,
and thus has a CQ seeking permission to store the ant-contrib library in
CVS.  Until some project wants to re-distribute ant-contrib, does it make
sense to include it in Orbit?

Thanks,

Christian




Christian W. Damus
Component Lead, Eclipse OCL and EMF MQ/MT/VF
IBM Rational Software