Re: [platform-dev] Getting the solution of a P2 resolve operation including missing requirements

2022-01-02 Thread Mickael Istria
On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 8:42 AM Ed Merks wrote: > so everyone doing interesting > p2 things ends up using various internal things... > That's true. But at least, by contributing to p2 (or PDE or whatever existing project that can match), you get more contributors and free (ie as in paid by IBM

Re: [platform-dev] Getting the solution of a P2 resolve operation including missing requirements

2022-01-01 Thread Ed Merks
Christoph, Certainly quite a number of things things in Oomph could be generally contributed to p2... The problem is that this is also not without yet more additional effort and I am only one person who "must" keep 4 project afloat and on the train... Also, if such additions are then

Re: [platform-dev] Getting the solution of a P2 resolve operation including missing requirements

2021-12-31 Thread Ed Merks
Christoph, The approach that we took with using p2 to implement Targlet support is to transform all the metadata such that resolution meets our needs: https://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/tree/plugins/org.eclipse.oomph.p2.core/src/org/eclipse/oomph/p2/core/P2Util.java#n223