Re: [pde-dev] pde build owner?

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A big +1 to Pascals proposal.

I suggest to open a bug report for this proposal.

Best regards, Lars

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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:        "Eclipse PDE general developers list." <pde-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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