sonatype/tycho-extras — Issue #3: installation of eclipse by tycho extras
Author: ilx
Created: 2011-10-08 12:00:36+00:00
State: open

Don't know if this is a right place to ask, but I will give it a try.

Is it be possible to streamline eclipse installation in a closed environment by using tycho-extras? Do you have plans to extend it?

I see tycho extras useful in following scenario:
- mirror specific p2 repos

What's missing is the other half - provisioning of mirrored IU-s:
- we need a way to aggregate mirrored repositories - I can do that with ant task - I'm not aware of maven plugin that does the same thing
- we need a way to create description of a new eclipse installation and push it to a maven repo (probably something simpler than eclipse product definition)
- we need a way to tell tycho-extras plugin to execute predefined eclipse installation by reading configuration in given product configuration artefact. The only thing it should ask end user is something like: where do you want to put eclipse installation?

I'm aware of p2 installer but it looks to me like a half-finished product - it's useful only for rough demos.