---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ----------
Von: Christian Dietrich <christian.dietr...@itemis.de>
Datum: 11. Jan. 2023, 18:22 +0100
An: ebr-...@eclipse.org, Orbit Developer discussion <orbit-...@eclipse.org>
Cc: Runtime Project PMC mailing list <rt-...@eclipse.org>
Betreff: Re: [orbit-dev] Retiring EBR

> Xtext still uses orbit so if this leads to orbit retirement we will have to 
> drop out from simrel if I don’t get help adopting the maven dependencies thing
> Am 11. Jan. 2023, 18:18 +0100 schrieb Gunnar Wagenknecht 
> <gun...@wagenknecht.org>:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > When EBR was created many years ago there was a huge demand for OSGi 
> > bundles. The EBR project came up with a solution to make Maven artifacts 
> > easily consumable from p2-enabled OSGi applications. However, it never 
> > really fulfilled the role of becoming a rich source for recipes. Today the 
> > primary customer of EBR is Orbit and Eclipse (via Orbit).
> >
> > In the last year, Eclipse PDE and Tycho made significant progress towards 
> > consuming Maven artifacts directly in target platforms. I've looked at the 
> > features available and started adopting that in a few projects. I think the 
> > technology is ready to make EBR obsolete.
> >
> > Therefor, I am proposing to sunset the EBR project. Thoughts? Comments?
> >
> > -Gunnar
> >
> > --
> > Gunnar Wagenknecht
> > gun...@wagenknecht.org, http://guw.io/
> >
> >
> >
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