At the time of this writing, there are 12 outstanding update requests whereby the oldest one dates back to 2017 as well as numerous issues for fixing inappropriate repacking dating back to 2009Īnother option is to download the artifact and put it into the target platform with a directory target entry which is possible thanks to the support we added recently in Tycho for local target locations. Even if the required package is there, it might be incomplete or outdated.Thus, if there is no demand from any Eclipse project, it is hard to get content in and it takes a considerable time to appear there Eclipse Orbit is dedicated to Eclipse projects.

In some cases, one can simply head over to Eclipse Orbit, but there are two major drawbacks in this regard – especially in prototyping scenarios: Whenever developing a plug-in for Eclipse or building a RCP application or Equinox-based product with PDE+Tycho, there will be the need to include a third-party dependency which is currently not part of your target. Read more articles about our opensource contributions The Use Case

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