[tycho-user] Newbie question for Tycho/building eclipse plugins

[Roger Studner <rstudner@xxxxxxxxx>]

A canonical question that I can't find a solid answer too.

I'm moving from ant/ivy over to maven/tycho.. so, how this worked, is i'd have ivy download a pile of jars into a lib folder, and have the MANIFEST just point at them.  Simple stuff.

Is there a way, in tycho, to specify a dependency that would be in my maven repo (like say, Apache commons) and download it to "lib" *prior* to then having the rest of everything run/get built.

I get a bit confused on that whole "everything must be an osgi bundle" versus the fact that I Just want my plugin to have a dependency on some maven repo jar's etc.

Just can't seem to sort out the right path to resolution for these types of things

Best,
Roger