How do I get Tycho?

Question

Tycho is supposed to be a plug-in for maven for building eclipse plug-ins.

I have found various blogs and other articles about it, but the contained links to Tycho are all dead or not accessible for the general public, for example: http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/04/tycho-040-roadmap/

The only thing I found is a project proposal on the eclipse site, but it doesn't reference any downloads: http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/tycho/

I found a svn repository, but it seems to be extremely dated: http://svn.codehaus.org/m2eclipse/tycho/trunk/

So my question is: where do I get tycho from? Or is it dead and I should stop bothering?

I doubt it's dead, since I found out there is a talk about it on JAX2010 ...

Answer 1

Tycho is not dead at all (it has indeed been submitted to become an Eclipse project) but is now hosted (and actively developed) on github: http://github.com/sonatype/sonatype-tycho

More links from the README.md:

Tycho homepage http://tycho.sonatype.org/

Tycho wiki https://docs.sonatype.org/display/TYCHO/Index

Tycho bug tracking https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/TYCHO

Building Tycho from sources http://docs.sonatype.org/display/TYCHO/BuildingTycho

Answer 2

Tycho works with stock Maven 3.x since at least Tycho-0.9.0 - it doesn't require a special distribution of Maven any more. (Adapted from http://twitter.com/jvanzyl/status/20700015111)

Answer 3

In the meanwhile, Tycho is hosted at Eclipse.org.

• Official entry point for documentation
• There are various indicators for the project's activity, e.g. a commit meter on the project's status page.
• You don't need to download Tycho manually - Maven will do that automatically for you (see also the official download page).