Re: [tycho-user] Tycho does not pick up java files during compilation

[Igor Fedorenko <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I know a thing or two about pom.xml ;-) and still I believe Maven
conventional project layout does not work for Tycho. I gave more
detailed explanation in the bug, if you are interested.

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Regards,
Igor

On 1/15/2014, 8:46, Andreas Sewe wrote:
> Igor Fedorenko wrote:
> > Conventional Maven project does not have enough metadata. You have to
> > have META-INF/MANIFEST.MF, for example. Also, OSGi bundle without any
> > java sources is very legitimate layout for projects that ship resources
> > only, like fragments with native code, for example. Assuming Maven
> > layout will be rather surprising for this kind of projects.
>
> Still (and I am sure you know this), every Maven project inherits a
> project.build.sourceDirectory of src/main/java from the Super POM.
> Assuming this layout in the absence of a build.properties is therefore
> entirely reasonable.
>
> Also, even Maven projects containing no src/main/java folder still
> inherit this value of project.build.sourceDirectory (and the
> maven-compiler-plugin will look there for sources). So I don't buy your
> argument about the resource-only Maven projects not having any source
> folders; their POMs disagree (unless someone goes to great length and
> overrides project.build.sourceDirectory, but I haven't seen this in the
> wild).
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Andreas