Re: eclipse packaging with maven/tycho

[Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 21:09 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I'm starting to look into shifting building eclipse-ptp/photran with 
> maven/tycho rather that pdebuild.  This is being driven by circular 
> build deps among the various features that make up ptp/photran and the 
> fact that this is how upstream builds it.
> 
> As currently packaged I have quite a lot of sub-packages that break out 
> the various features.  This was fairly easy to do with pdebuild since 
> everything was built on feature boundaries.
> 
> however with maven/tycho I end up with a single zip file with all the 
> features and plugins in it making it hard to put the plugins into the 
> proper sub-package.
> 
> Thoughts/suggestions?  Just give up and package it all as one package?

FWIW: eclipse-mylyn does exactly this.  There is now one SRPM
eclipse-mylyn again which produces many binary RPM packages which used
to be in separate SRPMs. For example
eclipse-mylyn-{commons,builds,tasks,docs,ide}. Mylyn upstream also moved
to tycho.

Cheers,
Severin


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