Christoph Läubrich

Could you provide a PR to fix the issue or an [integration-test](https://github.com/eclipse/tycho/wiki#providing-an-integration-test) to demonstrate the issue?

> "modelProcessor" is a "DefaultModelLocator" which will always return "pom.xml" as a file. This can not be correct since the name of a pom can be any valid file name....

Alright, then your next step could be to read the passed file from the Maven Session and the fetch the MavenExcution request that has a "getPom" and then hopefully there...

m2e build is currently using this but the goal is to get rid of it with tycho 2.7

You don't need a target platform at all, but as I said I actually don't see any reason why one want to use tycho but disable it afterwards? Actually the...

Sure its a bit work-in-progress but I hope we can get this working at least for m2e 2.0 and tycho 3.0 ...

@Bananeweizen @akurtakov We already have special handling for "clean only" workflow, so it would be better to add automatically detection of those instead of having some mostly magic property. Beside...

@akurtakov its on my list, but will take some more time I'll remove the milestone for now.

@LorenzoBettini can you open a dedicated bug for this, maybe with an example or even provide an [integration-test](https://github.com/eclipse/tycho/wiki#providing-an-integration-test) to demonstrate the issue?

@fipro78 can you try to minimize the testcase as indicated in the bug report? I think a smaller test-case can help us to identify the root cause more quickly.