Hi Robert,
To be honest, I still don't quite get that. 
The project configurators part should be part of m2e-ui 
(https://github.com/apache/sling/tree/trunk/tooling/ide/eclipse-m2e-ui/src/org/apache/sling/ide/eclipse/m2e/internal).
The (incremental) manifest generation is now being done through the 
maven-bundle-plugin since 3.2.0 natively 
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-4009). The same for the 
maven-scr-plugin (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3358).
So which code part of m2e-tycho is really necessary here?

When looking through the code at https://github.com/tesla/m2eclipse-tycho/ it 
seems that really only 
https://github.com/tesla/m2eclipse-tycho/blob/master/org.sonatype.tycho.m2e/src/org/sonatype/tycho/m2e/felix/internal/MavenBundlePluginConfigurator.java
  might be relevant and there our own project configurator should be enough 
(https://github.com/apache/sling/blob/trunk/tooling/ide/eclipse-m2e-ui/src/org/apache/sling/ide/eclipse/m2e/internal/BundleProjectConfigurator.java).

If really both configurators are necessary to get things running we should try 
to figure out which part  of 
https://github.com/tesla/m2eclipse-tycho/blob/master/org.sonatype.tycho.m2e/src/org/sonatype/tycho/m2e/felix/internal/MavenBundlePluginConfigurator.java
  needs to be taken over to 
https://github.com/apache/sling/blob/trunk/tooling/ide/eclipse-m2e-ui/src/org/apache/sling/ide/eclipse/m2e/internal/BundleProjectConfigurator.java
 to make things work.

Do you by chance remember what exactly was not working when you didn't have the 
m2e-tycho plugin installed?
Thanks,
Konrad

> On 7 Oct 2016, at 13:43, Robert Munteanu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Konrad,
> 
> On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 12:20 +0200, Konrad Windszus wrote:
>> 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/4df9ab2d6592422889c71fa13afd453
>> a10a5a626/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.apac
>> he.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/b
>> rowse/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.
> 
> The dependency is there to make sure that the OSGi metadata ( manifest,
> SCR descriptors, etc ) is generated and put in the right location.
> 
> Without the tycho-m2e feature things will be broken out of the box.
> 
> So while there is no hard dependency, it is in my opinion required, at
> least for now.
> 
> How to gracefully accommodate the transition is another issue, and I
> don't have a good answer for that.
> 
> Robert

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