[eclipse-dev] Confirm that Tycho can't manage BOTH p2 and Maven artifact

["David M. Karr" <davidmichaelkarr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I inherited a large Eclipse plugin codebase, but I'm pretty new to 
Eclipse plugin development.

I happened to notice that one of the subprojects had a few jars just 
dumped into a "lib" folder, and those jars are referenced from the 
.classpath, build.properties, and META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file.  This 
subproject also has several bundles that it depends on.

I wondered why these artifacts weren't just specified as Maven 
artifacts.  I asked about this odd convention on the IRC #eclipse 
channel, and someone said that Tycho can't handle BOTH p2 and Maven 
artifacts.  I took him at his word, but I need to get more information 
about this.  I'm working with someone else who believes this shouldn't 
be a problem, so I need to find some proof for this statement.