Re: [tycho-user] FW: Steps before deprecating eclipse-update-site

["Oberlies, Tobias" <tobias.oberlies@xxxxxxx>]

Igor Fedorenko wrote:
> As for eclipse-update-site, I believe it is quite different from
> eclipse-repository. First, update sites only include "included"
> dependencies, i.e., m2e update site only includes m2e features/bundles
> but does NOT include m2e dependencies. 

"included only" is the default of eclipse-repository. Dependencies are only included if the switch includeAllDependencies=true is set.

> Second, update sites can include
> multiple versions of the same feature, i.e., m2e 0.10.0, 0.12.0, 0.12.1
> and 0.12.2 can all be included in the same update site. Based on our
> Eclipsecon discussion, I believe new repository descriptor format is
> required before these can be supposed by eclipse-repository packaging.

Have you tried adding multiple versions of features to the category.xml? I think this (and allowConflictingDependencies=true) should allow you to include multiple versions of features into an eclipse-repository.

Tobias


> --
> Regards,
> Igor
> 
> On 11-04-14 03:59 PM, Oberlies, Tobias wrote:
> > With eclipse-repository becoming more mature and more complete, I
> > believe it is time to get rid of the duplication of packaging types
> > for building p2 repositories in Tycho. As a first step, we should
> > mark eclipse-update-site as deprecated, once eclipse-repository can
> > be used in all supported cases.
> >
> > I currently only know case where using eclipse-repository is not yet
> > possible: if the target platform is defined via
> > pomDependencies=consider [1]. This issue should be resolved soon; we
> > are planning to work on this from next week. After this we will
> > replace eclipse-update-site by eclipse-repository in the Tycho
> > integration tests - to be sure that everything is covered.
> >
> > Do you know of additional cases where eclipse-repository is lacking
> > functionality or is not suited for your needs? If yes, please create
> > bugs or enhancement requests and link them to the umbrella bug for
> > the eclipse-update-site deprecation [2]. If you have more general
> > concerns, we can also discuss them here.
> >
> > Best regards Tobias
> >
> >
> > [1] https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/TYCHO-570 : Artifacts from POM
> > dependencies missing in eclipse-repository [2]
> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=342876 : Deprecate
> > packaging type eclipse-update-site
> >
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