| Re: [tycho-user] Produce artifacts consumable by Maven and Tycho |
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Hi, In this scenario I would suggest to build the “core-utils” with plain Maven and use the maven-bnd-plugin to generate the OSGi metadata
(MANIFEST.MF). This way your “core-utils” can be published to a Maven repository directly as valid OSGi bundles without modifications afterwards. Your Tycho builds can then consume the Maven artifacts directly by using the m2e PDE Extension and Tycho 2.2. BTW, Tycho would also use the bnd tooling for generating the OSGi metadata on the fly. So you would only “win” the fact that you don’t
need to call that plugin yourself. But I personally think that if you are in control of the build artifacts, you should use the maven-bnd-plugin and publish correct OSGi bundles to a Maven repository instead of publishing plain Maven. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Von: tycho-user <tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> Im Auftrag von
Ahmet Bilgin Hi, what is the current best practice to build common artifacts that are used in both Maven and Tycho builds? Scenario: Here is a scenario (all listed modules are build inhouse, except the one called 3rd-Party): Let’s call the following modules our “core-utils”: - Module1 (depends on) -- Module2 -- Module3 (depends on) --- 3rd-Party -- Module4 Module1 – Module4 (“core-utils”) are all required in our Tycho RCP Build and in our Maven Builds (non-eclipse): - tycho-rcp-build (depends on) -- Module1 -- Module2 -- Module3 -- Module4 - maven-builds (depend on) -- Module1 -- Module2 -- Module3 -- Module4 And now the big price question: Which should be the leading build-system for these “core-utils” – Tycho or Maven? Additional info: we have way more tycho rcp bundles than plain maven artifacts. There are two options: Option-1: Build maven-artifacts with maven - build and install to maven repo - Maven builds: can consume the artifacts without additional effort
- Tycho builds: use on-the-fly conversion to Tycho/osgi artifact -- Tycho tooling for this is implemented in tycho v.2.2 -- Alternative: something like maven-bnd-plugin -- Consume converted artifacts in tycho build Option-2: Build tycho artifacts - build tycho artifacts but store artifacts in Maven style repo or use some other mechanisms to make the artifacts consumable from maven builds -- I know that the b3aggretor has this capability when mirroring P2-Repos. See
https://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=CBI/aggregator&redirect=no#Creating_a_Maven-conformant_p2_repo
-- Has Tycho this feature too? -- Alternative: for example something like this:
https://github.com/lhein/EclipseToMavenTooling - Tycho Builds: can consume the artifacts without additional effort - Maven-Builds: can consume the artifacts without additional effort (because the repo is structured like a maven repo, but also has p2 metainformation) Questions: 1. Which way is preferable / which should be the leading build system for these “core-utils”? 2. Is there any downside to one of the approaches, I’m maybe missing? Best regards, Ahmet
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