We have discussed this topic during last week p2 call and have decided that we 
will provide an API to serialize a set of IUs.
Bug 335865


On 2011-01-21, at 11:57 PM, Igor Fedorenko wrote:

> Tycho calculates and maintains build target platform for each project
> individually. For larger builds, with tens or even hundreds of projects,
> target platform resolution becomes quite time consuming so I am looking
> for ways to optimise this. One optimisation I am considering is caching
> resolved target platform instances between re-builds of the same project
> and I was hoping to use serialization as an easy way to implement this.
> 
> p2 metadata is part of target platform state Tycho needs to maintain and
> unfortunately p2 metadata is not serializable.
> 
> So as the subject says, is there a chance p2 metadata will become
> serializable in 3.7 or I should look for alternative solutions?
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Igor
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