Currently the m2e-feature of the Sling IDE still requires the feature org.sonatype.tycho.m2e.feature (https://github.com/apache/sling/blob/4df9ab2d6592422889c71fa13afd453a10a5a626/tooling/ide/m2e-feature/feature.xml#L229 <https://github.com/apache/sling/blob/4df9ab2d6592422889c71fa13afd453a10a5a626/tooling/ide/m2e-feature/feature.xml#L229>) Since the latter seems rather unmaintained I would like to get rid of that dependency which was added in the context of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-3608 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-3608>.
This is also important since newer versions of the maven-bundle-plugin conflict with that extension (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-4009?focusedCommentId=15192263&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15192263 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-4009?focusedCommentId=15192263&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15192263>) @Robert: Do you have any idea why this was initially added? SLING-3608 does not give much hints here. There should be no explicit runtime dependency to any tycho code IMHO.
