On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 9:12 AM Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurt...@redhat.com> wrote:
> With that struggle I couldn't resist to ask myself why do we > overcomplicate things and not do what most projects contributing to simrel > already do - create their p2 repository via Tycho. > There is a bug for moving to Tycho already [2] and it's time to revive the > discussion and simplify releng processes and reduce the number of tools we > use. > The way I look at things is - if I'm struggling to have all the various > "specialized" tools needed we have while being paid to do it full time and > years of releng experience with eclipse projects we have close to zero > chances in attract new people in helping and it's time to think more > seriously about that. > > [1] > https://wiki.eclipse.org/Simrel/Contributing_to_Simrel_Aggregation_Build#Install_the_CBI_p2Repo_Aggregator > [2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=500769 > Thanks Alex for bringing the motivation, I've invested the day in refreshing all those efforts on https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=500769 / https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/simrel/org.eclipse.simrel.build/+/170553 to move SimRel to Tycho, and resubmitted a change for CBI aggregator to allow generating an equivalent-ish Tycho build (pom.xml+category.xml) which was used to SimRel https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/cbi/org.eclipse.cbi.p2repo.aggregator/+/81540 . I'm waiting for completion of local build and will report some feedback on the related bugs or Gerrit.
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