Re: [tycho-user] Target vs repository

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Daniel Burrell <daniel.burrell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So why would do both? 

In my opinion, you should avoid doing both a stick to .target as much as possible.

How should third party bundle artefacts be referenced and where should they be located and why?

- should it be made available by adding a reference to the p2 repository containing the artefact to the target platform?

Eclipse Orbit or JBoss Tools for examples do have a dedicated build to "osgi-ify" and "p2-ify" 3rd party libs which aren't already usable by p2. With this approach, the advantage is that everything becomes regular p2 artifacts that you can put in the .target file; and the drawback is that you have to build a separate "3rd-party" repository containing all such libs prior to build your own code.

HTH

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Mickael Istria

Eclipse IDE developer, at Red Hat Developers community

Elected Committer Representative at the Eclipse Foundation board of directors