Re: Advice for managing large-scale OSGI repository for data analysis

[David Goblirsch <dg...@interactivebrokers.com>]

Marcel Bruch wrote:
> Hi ivy-users,
>
> we are currently setting up a large code repository for OSGI bundles. Goal of this work is to create recommendations models for Eclipse Code Recommenders intelligent code completion, code search, and extdocs platform (see http://eclipse.org/recommenders and http://code-recommenders.blogpost.com for details). The OSGI bundles will be collected from public available Eclipse Update Sites and should be stored locally using a Maven/Ivy like directory structure. After the sites have been copied, several analyses will be run to extract information such as frequent usage patterns, common code snippets etc.
>
> I just learned that since 2.3. Ivy has support for dealing with OSGI dependencies such as import packages etc. which is really big news! Since documentation is a bit rare yet, I'd like to ask you for little information what can be done with Ivy 2.3:
>
> 1. Is it supported to copy/mirror an Eclipse P2 repository into a local Ivy repository?
> 2. Is there a simply way to create an Ivy file from an existing OSGI-bundle manifest?
> 3. How well is resolving OSGI dependencies supported? Are there any known limitations I should be aware?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Marcel
>   

is there a release plan for ivy 2.3 ? IvyDE 2.2 ?

Re: Advice for managing large-scale OSGI repository for data analysis

[Nicolas Lalevée <ni...@hibnet.org>]

Le 10 nov. 2011 à 21:38, David Goblirsch a écrit :

> Marcel Bruch wrote:
>> Hi ivy-users,
>> 
>> we are currently setting up a large code repository for OSGI bundles. Goal of this work is to create recommendations models for Eclipse Code Recommenders intelligent code completion, code search, and extdocs platform (see http://eclipse.org/recommenders and http://code-recommenders.blogpost.com for details). The OSGI bundles will be collected from public available Eclipse Update Sites and should be stored locally using a Maven/Ivy like directory structure. After the sites have been copied, several analyses will be run to extract information such as frequent usage patterns, common code snippets etc.
>> 
>> I just learned that since 2.3. Ivy has support for dealing with OSGI dependencies such as import packages etc. which is really big news! Since documentation is a bit rare yet, I'd like to ask you for little information what can be done with Ivy 2.3:
>> 
>> 1. Is it supported to copy/mirror an Eclipse P2 repository into a local Ivy repository?
>> 2. Is there a simply way to create an Ivy file from an existing OSGI-bundle manifest?
>> 3. How well is resolving OSGI dependencies supported? Are there any known limitations I should be aware?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Marcel
>>  
> 
> is there a release plan for ivy 2.3 ? IvyDE 2.2 ?

There has been no discussion about doing a release on the dev list. Nothing planed.

About IvyDE, speaking only for myself, I think we should do one soon. I'll to suggest to the developer community to do a beta release once some few tasks will be accomplished (change the setup of the eclipse updatesite, some doc and do some basic functionally wide testing).

Nicolas