e(fx)clipse 1.2.0 - publishing runtime as an R5 bundle repository

In other posts I already outlined that our effort beside creating new features is to make the e(fx)clipse runtime a better citizen of the OSGi community / ecosystem. Starting with 1.2.0 we are not only providing a p2 repository - for people using PDE and Tycho - but also an R5 bundle repository you can use with bnd and bnd-tools (if you are an eclipse user). Publishing our runtime as an R5 bundle repository in theory would allow you to use other IDEs as well to make use of our runtime - I say in theory because if not mistaken IntelliJ IDEA nor Netbeans yet support bnd directly. I tried to get something working with IntelliJ IDEA, gradle and bnd but failed miserably which might be because I'm a newbie at gradle and IntelliJ IDEA - so if someone can give me a lending hand I'm happy to document the steps at our wiki and even add project setup support to our project wizards in future versions so that you are able to generate multi IDE projects. So if a Netbeans or IntelliJ IDEA user is reading this I would really appreciate your input because I want our runtime used as much as possible without you leaving and forcing you into a specific IDE is not the way to go.