Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Can Orbit also host "p2-ified" OSGi bundles from Maven?

2016-09-06 Thread Roland Grunberg
> Hi all, > Some OSGi bundles are existing on Maven, great. Tycho is able to consume them > directly with the "pomDependencies=consider" option, great too. > However, this pomDependencies=consider doesn't have an equivalent in PDE > target-platform like p2 has. So it makes that using directly OSGi

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Can Orbit also host "p2-ified" OSGi bundles from Maven?

2016-09-06 Thread Mickael Istria
On 09/06/2016 02:05 PM, Jens Reimann wrote: It probably only conflicts with the "need it soon" requirement ;-) Exactly ;) And that would introduce a dependency from PDE Target resolver to Maven, so to the technical difficulty, one has to add this "political" one. It seems more pragmatic to put

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Can Orbit also host "p2-ified" OSGi bundles from Maven?

2016-09-06 Thread Jens Reimann
Wouldn't it be great if the ".target" platform file would allow adding Maven repositories and GAV entries below them?! That way it would be possible to simple reference specific artifacts from Maven central. True, only explicitly named artifacts would be found, there would be no P2 resolver magic

[cross-project-issues-dev] Can Orbit also host "p2-ified" OSGi bundles from Maven?

2016-09-06 Thread Mickael Istria
Hi all, Some OSGi bundles are existing on Maven, great. Tycho is able to consume them directly with the "pomDependencies=consider" option, great too. However, this pomDependencies=consider doesn't have an equivalent in PDE target-platform like p2 has. So it makes that using directly OSGi bundl