The bottom line is that I don't think our Eclipse plugin would require any new Maven dependencies at this state.
2011/6/22 Andrey Razumovsky <[email protected]> > Let me join the discussion.. > > Eshan, the new dependencies are Eclipse dependencies, right? Are they > *default* Eclipse bundles? If so, it is incorrect to provide them as Maven > dependencies, because they will be included in our bundle, while they are > already in Eclipse. It's also incorrect to rely on certain Eclipse bundles > (like workbench-3.6.1.M20100826-1330.jar), because plugin can be run in > different versions of Eclipse. > > I strongly advice you to add all Eclipse bundles via Require-Bundle header > in manifest, and do not mess with Maven currently at all.. We can figure out > how to build plugin using Maven later. > Currently manifest in your patch contains lots of unneeded stuff, it should > be really little (most of Private-Package and Import-Package would go away, > since Eclipse bundles would be attached via Require-Bundle). I'm pretty sure > this is the only correct way. > > Good luck! > > > 2011/6/21 Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> > >> >> On Jun 21, 2011, at 4:46 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: >> >> > Isn't there a process for submitting artifacts to central? >> >> BTW, I tried to investigate that for core Cayenne dependencies still >> sitting on objectstyle.org. Central has a requirement to have a -src and >> -javadoc artifacts submitted with the binary. This is a reasonable >> expectation for an open source project, but in practice it means a bit of an >> effort to prepare a compatible distro. >> >> E.g. it took some time to even find the SVN for Hessian: svn:// >> svn.caucho.com/resin/ And now I have to checkout everything to find the >> sources for the right version of Hessian, the figure out how to build it. >> >> But in case of Eclipse and friends that seems moot, as it is all in their >> p2 repositories already. So it is a question of an appropriate adapter, like >> Tycho. (this is my assumption anyways; I am not an Eclipse dev of course). >> >> Some more googling shows that Nexus Professional can proxy p2 repos ( >> http://www.sonatype.com/books/nexus-book/reference/p2.html), which is not >> very helpful either (we don't have a "canonical" install of Nexus >> Professional). >> >> Andrus >> >> > > > -- > Andrey > -- Andrey
