Feature based Ordering about p2-maven-plugin

[tombujok]

Hi Felix,

Yes, p2-maven-plugin is supposed to solve all your problems with 3rd party p2 dependency management 👍

It's possible to organize dependencies into categories. You just have to specify your own category.xml file where you define how to group the dependencies. Look at "categoryFileURL" in the doc.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14381676/how-to-correctly-specify-eclipse-plugins-in-category-xml-of-tycho-eclipse-reposi

Try to see if it's enough for you.

[kdoteu]

Thank you, for your fast reply. I didn't know that category.xml can handle plugins. I tried a few things.

But for me its a step to many. If a developer want to add a dependency he had to add it in the pom.xml and in the category.xml.
And i noticed this plugin can't handle local bundles. But i think it wasn't designed for this case. I think i have to write my own plugin but i will combine it with yours.

[tombujok]

Hi Felix

Yes, the plugin does not handle the local bundles.
It's on my TODO list to handle OSGi bundles and to create features though.

It's a very time consuming task to setup a new plugin, jenkins build, hosting, documentation, etc.
In the end you would need most of my code anyways.
I think it does not make sense to create another plugin and combine it with mine.
Local bundles / OSGI bundles resolution and features would be a great supplementation of p2-maven-plugin.
Would you like to contribute this feature and become an contributor/commiter of this part?

Cheers
Tom

[kdoteu]

Hi Tom,

you answered all my questions to this issue so we can close at this point.
Thanks for all, specially your great work!

For the other stuff you will get a mail.