> Here's a post: > http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/building-eclipse-plug-ins-with-maven-3-and-tycho/ > > At some point in the future, we may want to revisit our Eclipse build > strategies > in light of this kind of tooling...
As far as I understood Tycho, it takes the PDE metadata and makes it usable by Maven. Dependencies are downloaded from Update Sites, etc. Effectively this allows you to build Eclipse PDE applications in tools like Jenkins that support Maven, but not the PDE builds. For me, the major difference is, that I can no longer maintain dependencies in the POM file and profit from Maven's automatic resolving and downloading. Instead I have to manually download and install required plugins into my IDE or use an Eclipse Platform Definition to develop my applications. Since I love Maven's downloading automatic capabilities, my conclusions so far was: no tycho for me. Cheers, Richard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Eckart de Castilho Technical Lead Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab FB 20 Computer Science Department Technische Universität Darmstadt Hochschulstr. 10, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany phone [+49] (0)6151 16-7477, fax -5455, room S2/02/B117 [email protected] www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de Web Research at TU Darmstadt (WeRC) www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de -------------------------------------------------------------------
