Re: [tycho-user] Converting a P2 update-site into a maven repository

[Marcel Bruch <bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.

On 03.09.2011, at 15:44, Igor Fedorenko wrote:

> There is one called m4e, but it is written in groovy or some other
> scripting language, so I have not looked at it. I think this is the only
> publicly available at the moment.
> 
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> Igor
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> On 11-09-03 9:34 AM, Marcel Bruch wrote:
>> An approximation would be good enough in most cases, I guess.
>> 
>>> There are couple of efforts that try to make p2->maven conversion, that
>>> I am aware of
>> 
>> Can you provide some pointers? Maybe to the "most sophisticated ones"?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 03.09.2011, at 15:19, Igor Fedorenko wrote:
>> 
>>> Tycho does not convert p2 repositories to Maven. Instead, it makes
>>> p2/osgi dependency resolution logic available for Maven plugins.
>>> 
>>> There are couple of efforts that try to make p2->maven conversion, that
>>> I am aware of, but such conversion is fundamentally an approximation and
>>> I believe there are always be cases when resulting maven repository will
>>> not produce desired dependencies. This does not mean the result is
>>> useless, however ;-)
>>> 
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>>> Regards,
>>> Igor
>>> 
>>> On 11-09-03 7:09 AM, Marcel Bruch wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm currently evaluating different approaches to setup a large-scale
>>>> code repository for Eclipse Code Recommenders. The upcoming
>>>> Eclipse/Sonatype's Aether dependency management tool seems to be a good
>>>> fit to resolve dependencies between (maven) artifacts. I'd also like to
>>>> analyze osgi bundles and resolve these dependencies with Aether. Since
>>>> Aether supports only Maven repositories out of the box, the simplest
>>>> approach would be to merge P2 update sites into a local maven repository.
>>>> 
>>>> Since tycho seems to do something similar, I'd like to ask whether there
>>>> is a simple way to convert a P2 update site to a maven repository - or
>>>> even better to merge a P2 update-site into a local Maven repository -
>>>> maybe with tycho?
>>>> 
>>>> If this can be done with tycho, is there a solution to deal with OSGI
>>>> package imports?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Marcel
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>> Thanks,
>> Marcel
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Marcel

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