> Orbit essentially
is like Maven Central
In that case I don't
understand why do we need
Orbit at all. With the
latest announcements
regarding tycho
capabilities from
Christoph + lack of
resources to support Orbit
in safe form it seems to
be useless.
You have hit the
nail on the head! Although
useless is going a little far.
Orbit does not likely have a
long term future. However as
there are many projects that
build from it still we need it.
Also there is a problem if
multiple projects start
contributing the same version of
third party lib that will
hopefully be solved in the
future with PGP signing.
Orbit should not
be directly contributing to
simrel, but for a variety of
reasons it does (see comments in
the file)
As mentioned in
the Gerrit, passage's p2 repo
should be publishing its third
party deps and it should be
possible for consumers to
install passage from passage's
p2 repo without requiring an
orbit repo be added too.
I know for sure
that numerous projects are not
quite doing that (again see
comments in orbit.aggrcon) but
hopefully at some point the
temporary contribution of orbit
to simrel directly can be
removed.