Re: [m2e-dev] Wish to contribute an incubating bundle for easier import

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/23/2015 01:05 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:

Why would you not want parent pom projects to be available in eclipse ?

Because they don't provide any added value AFAIK.
It's meaningful to have a project (instead of a folder) when the edition of files inside this project requires "shared" data that is attached to the project (such as classpath containers, builders). But when you don't have any of these, it becomes useless (and resource consuming) to have an Eclipse project.
Take as example a package with type "eclipse-repository" and a category.xml in it. Category editor works well since it uses the workspace-scoped target-platform, so it doesn't store any project-wide data, and it's totally fine to edit it directly without turning the folder as a project.

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