Wendell Beckwith wrote on 06/06/2006 07:41:39 PM:
> This came up previously in this thread, http://dev.eclipse.
> org/mhonarc/lists/pde-build-dev/msg00076.html, but it seems to have
> fallen on the floor and rolled under the couch. Nonetheless,
my
Every once in a while we get a stick and poke around
in the dark recesses under the couch but mostly this topic seems to just
roll further away... :-)
Seriously, it is quite interesting. There is
no desire to lock people into PDE or have PDE rule the world. The
main barrier has been the work required for us to get to know Maven and
others getting to know PDE Build... While the approach you outline
feels plausible, there are some fundamental technology issues that need
to be understood and addressed.
- Dependency management : Maven has a reasonable mechanism
for finding and resolving dependencies. Unfortunately, the OSGi dependency
model is considerably richer. As a result, maven will not know, for
example, how to deal with Import-Package statements that spec arbitrary
dependencies and use the "uses" directive.
