[tycho-user] Will pomDependencies=consider work inside the eclipse IDE?

[Steinar Bang <sb@xxxxxx>]

If I have a tycho project with a parent POM
  https://github.com/steinarb/modeler/blob/master/pom.xml

and a target maven module/eclipse project, that has an eclipse .target
file defining the target platform
  https://github.com/steinarb/modeler/tree/master/modeler.target

and then in eclipse opens the .target file
  https://github.com/steinarb/modeler/blob/master/modeler.target/modeler.target.target

in the target file editor, and click on "Set as Target Platform", then
this will work both inside the eclipse IDE and when building with "mvn"
from the command line.


However, if I:
 1. Add a dependency to the parent POM
      https://github.com/steinarb/modeler/blob/using-neoj-osgi-bundle/pom.xml
    like this:
      <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>com.smb-tec.neo4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>neo4j-osgi-bundle</artifactId>
          <version>2.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </dependency>
      </dependencies>

 2. Have the setting pomDependencies=consider in the same parent POM:
      <build>
        <plugins>
          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId>
            <artifactId>target-platform-configuration</artifactId>
            <version>${tycho.version}</version>
            <configuration>
              <resolver>p2</resolver>
              <pomDependencies>consider</pomDependencies>
              <ignoreTychoRepositories>true</ignoreTychoRepositories>
              <target>
                <artifact>
                  <groupId>no.priv.bang</groupId>
                  <artifactId>modeler.target</artifactId>
                  <version>${project.version}</version>
                </artifact>
              </target>
            </configuration>
          </plugin>
        </plugins>
      </build>

then I can see how this would work when doing "mvn install", but I see
no mechanism that can add the dependency to the target platform inside
the eclipse IDE.


Is this a correct observation?  If so, how can I add the bundle to the
target platform used by the eclipse IDE?

Thanks!


- Steinar

(on a side note I have to find out what the
<ignoreTychoRepositories>true</ignoreTychoRepositories> setting
means... it was put there by the archetype...)