Dirk Fauth

@nikhilnanivadekar Sorry that this PR now got that big. But it was necessary to be able to build an update site with Tycho once the meta information in the MANIFEST...

> @fipro78 trying to understand the PR. Is it possible to logically squash the commits? Multiple commits are ok, but some of them are overwritten and reviewing would be cumbersome....

@motlin @nikhilnanivadekar @donraab The `@aQute.bnd.annotation.spi.ServiceProvider` is an annotation with class time retention. That means there is not additional runtime dependency by using this annotation. It is only used to tell...

@nikhilnanivadekar I just stumbled across this issue and would like to add some information. From my understanding the Eclipse p2 build step is needed because: 1. In an Eclipse project...

@merks What is your opinion on this topic? With the latest modifications on the PR #1569 I now get an error from EBR about an incorrect manifest header. But the...

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.eclipse.collections/eclipse-collections This is what is currently published to Maven Central. But the problem is that API and Impl are separated, so they do not work out of the box in...

Just to get it right: Is your suggestion to add Eclipse Collections to Orbit? Then we can discuss if we either want to re-bundle them as a single bundle or...

> What exactly is involved here so that these things "just work"? The concrete issue is that the API consumes SPI services from Impl. But currently they do not configure...

> As of the most recent Eclipse Platform release, the platform already uses SPI Fly: > > https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/blob/7abd3a2f917361376456a95a5f412f0e1d9c120b/eclipse.platform.releng.tychoeclipsebuilder/eclipse.platform.repository/sdk.product#L191 @merks Just out of curiosity. Why was it chosen to use the...

@nikhilnanivadekar With the PR to add the support for the ServiceLoaderMediator, I want to update to a newer Tycho version and remove the EBR usage. This seems to be necessary,...