[UIMA-2475] eclipse p2 update site instead of old-style update site

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Eclipse plugins
• Assignee: Peter Klügl
• Reporter: Steven Bethard
• Created: 04/Oct/12 17:27
• Updated: 13/Jun/13 21:46
• Resolved: 13/Jun/13 21:46

Description

The UIMA Eclipse update site (www.apache.org/dist/uima/eclipse-update-site) is an Eclipse 3.3 (or older) update site. Since Eclipse 3.4, the recommended update site layout is p2:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started_for_Releng#Why_should_I_make_changes_to_adopt_p2.3F

I've been bitten by this update site issue because old-style update sites make it impossible to resolve build-time dependencies when building Eclipse plugins:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=380438#c3

Could the UIMA update site be modernized to the p2 layout?

Issue Links

• is superceded by: UIMA-2568 Redesign Eclipse Update Site for P2 and Maintainability