This leads to the wider question on the
future of the PDE build component.
Throughout the years, PDE Build has never been the center of much
attention. Now with the overwhelming adoption of Maven/Tycho as
technology for headless builds, and the disconnect resulting from
what the IDE does and what Tycho does, I think that keeping PDE
Build alive is not really helping anyone (for example, when I
implemented the support for the new mac layout, I had to modify
PDE build in a number of places and this was definitely not fun).
Consequently I think we should explore a way to get rid of PDE
Build and replace it with Tycho.
When I first started this thought exercise a couple years ago, it
seemed complicated (especially to build just one plug-in). However
the recent changes in Tycho to support pom-less builds would
definitely simplify things.
Of course this would mean shipping Maven (and maybe Tycho) as part
of the SDK, but I think the benefits would be:
- consistent story between headless and IDE builds (today there
are still disconnects between PDE build and Tycho)
- one codebase to work on with one focus
- potential for improving the sharing of bundles between PDE and
Maven
Pascal
On 08/01/2016 9:02 AM, Daniel Megert wrote:
Hi Elena
PDE Build is not getting much
love these
days. I looked at the change and merged it.
Thanks,
Dani
From:
Alena Laskavaia
<elaskavaia.cdt@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
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Date:
08.01.2016 14:25
Subject:
[pde-dev] pde
build owner?
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Any of committees are taking care of pde build now
days?
I submitted a 2 line patch and it is sitting there
sad
without any comments for 3 weeks...
https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/62984/Bug 432399- [Import/Export] Export feature not exporting empty
folders
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