[pde-build-dev] building Eclipse with Maven

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There has been some discussion about
building OSGi bundles with Maven.   I don't know much about Maven
but hear that it has some infrastructure that might be interesting.  I
am concerned however about it appearing to want to be on top.  It
would be very interesting to understand how one can feed dependencies into
Maven and control the resolution of those dependencies.  This seems
key when dealing with systems like OSGi which have a very rich dependency
model.

So, if there is anyone out there who
knows about Maven (actually Maven 2 seems a better choice) and wants to
take a stab at setting up a M2 based build for Eclipse, lets hear from
you.  It should be quite instructive to take a small set of existing
bundles (say the 11 RCP bundles) and see if we can build those for a couple
different platforms (e.g., Windows and Linux GTK).

Jeff