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Re: [m2e-users] dependencies in m2e.core
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Regards,
Igor
On 11-10-28 1:17 PM, slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi m2eclipsers,
We're trying to use m2e core (a couple of extension points and some
classes) in a command-line application, and have discovered that at least
in an older version that m2e.core bundle has a dependency on
org.eclipse.search, which has a number of dependencies on UI code
(org.eclipse.ui, swt, jface I think, etc). For our command-line
application, we don't want all this UI code (for size, load time, etc).
First question: Is there any way that the m2e.core dependency on
org.eclipse.search be removed?...and/or isolated in a m2e.core.ui plugin?
What would be required to get this to happen? Bug/enhancement request,
etc?
We have not looked at running m2e in headless mode and I am curious to
understand the use case behind this requirement (m2e is about
integration with maven, which is a headless command line tool...)
Regardless of the use case, I think it is generally a good idea to make
m2e.core independent of eclipse ui and will be willing to review and
apply a patch.
If download size your main concern, I think it would make sense to
decompose m2e.core even further, in particular, integration with nexus
indexer and archetyper can probably move into their own bundles.
Second (unrelated) question: I've seen that the m2e git repo doesn't seem
to have Eclipse project structure (so they can't be imported into an
Eclipse workspace). Are there some instructions/procedure for getting the
current m2eclipse source code into an Eclipse workspace?
m2e 1.1 development environment is documented here
http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_Development_Environment
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Regards,
Igor
