[tycho-user] Directory structure for pom-less build

[<Matthew.Webber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Background: We're looking at moving away from Buckminster to Maven/Tycho to build our Eclipse RCP products.

It was suggested that a pom-less build was the best approach, but looking at the documentation, all the examples assume a fairly specific directory structure, something like:

project/
-- .mvn/
-- bundles/
---- bundle1/
---- bundle2/
-- features/
---- feature1/
---- feature2/
-- products/
---- product1/
---- product2/

Is that structure really required? 

Our code lives across a number of repositories. Worse, we need to ignore some of the projects (bundles/features) that exist in the repositories - directories containing code might exist, but the code might not even compile. In the IDE that's not a problem, because we simply don't import those projects into the Eclipse workspace, so they are invisible to the build.

Can Tycho pom-less build handle this - does it have access to the Eclipse workspace, so that it knows what projects exist and where on disk they are? 

I guess I'm missing some basic concepts here - I can see that Tycho knows about Eclipse-type things (features, products etc), but does it also know about Eclipse workspaces and what is/is not in them?

Thanks for any guidance!

Matthew
 

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