[jbosstools-dev] Coming soon to a Tycho build near you: pomless builds!

[Mickael Istria]

On 10/01/2015 04:28 PM, Fred Bricon wrote:
> No m2e(-tycho) doesn't support pom-less projects, because well, 
> they're pom-less :-)
> m2e lacks native support for polyglot maven (more generally Maven 
> extensions), this is something I need to discuss with Igor and JVZ at 
> some point but, according to igor, it will be very hard to implement.
In any case, a MANIFEST.MF is not a Maven-specific metadata file, so 
even with polyglot support, m2e would need to crawl in parent to find 
out whether there is a parent pom which defines the folder of the 
current plugin project as module... Seems quite intrusive in IDE.
I am not that thrilled by the pom-less things. Indeed it saves a few 
files, but it adds a layer of generation that makes the process more 
complicated and the integration with tools loess explicit. Moreover, the 
cost of having and maintaining a pom file is quite low, so I have 
trouble to figure out whether we'd save much effort (or add some more) 
in adopting it.

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