Re: [pde-dev] pde build owner?

[Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=485429

On 16-01-08 10:37 AM, Lars Vogel wrote:
> A big +1 to Pascals proposal.
>
> I suggest to open a bug report for this proposal.
>
> Best regards, Lars
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This leads to the wider question on the future of the PDE build component.
> >
> > Throughout the years, PDE Build has never been the center of much attention.
> > Now with the overwhelming adoption of Maven/Tycho as technology for headless
> > builds, and the disconnect resulting from what the IDE does and what Tycho
> > does, I think that keeping PDE Build alive is not really helping anyone (for
> > example, when I implemented the support for the new mac layout, I had to
> > modify PDE build in a number of places and this was definitely not fun).
> > Consequently I think we should explore a way to get rid of PDE Build and
> > replace it with Tycho.
> >
> > When I first started this thought exercise a couple years ago, it seemed
> > complicated (especially to build just one plug-in). However the recent
> > changes in Tycho to support pom-less builds would definitely simplify
> > things.
> > Of course this would mean shipping Maven (and maybe Tycho) as part of the
> > SDK, but I think the benefits would be:
> > - consistent story between headless and IDE builds (today there are still
> > disconnects between PDE build and Tycho)
> > - one codebase to work on with one focus
> > - potential for improving the sharing of bundles between PDE and Maven
> >
> > Pascal
> >
> >
> > On 08/01/2016 9:02 AM, Daniel Megert wrote:
> >
> > Hi Elena
> >
> > PDE Build is not getting much love these days. I looked at the change and
> > merged it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dani
> >
> >
> >
> > From:        Alena Laskavaia <elaskavaia.cdt@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To:        "Eclipse PDE general developers list." <pde-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:        08.01.2016 14:25
> > Subject:        [pde-dev] pde build owner?
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> >
> >
> > Any of committees are taking care of pde build now days?
> > I submitted a 2 line patch and it is sitting there sad
> > without any comments for 3 weeks...
> >
> > https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/62984/Bug 432399- [Import/Export] Export
> > feature not exporting empty folders
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