Re: auto-provides and requires for OSGi packages

Hi,

* Ben Konrath <bkonrathredhat.com> [2007-03-29
03:43]:
> 
> IMO it would be much better for the Orbit project to
undertake the
> task of getting the manifests in the upstream jars.
That would allow
> them to put a process in place to update the manifests
when the need
> arises.

I fully agree.  I don't know why I suggested it earlier - I
guess to
play the devil's advocate 

Thanks,

Andrew

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A long time ago, when we started jar'ing plug-ins we tried
to convince
everyone that manifests were the way to go, however we did
not succeed.
Part of it was "why should we do something for
eclipse" (osgi had not been
over-hyped) but also that eclipse was using non-standards
headers in the
manifest. Since then the situation has improved a lot,
especially with OSGi
R4.1, however there are still some corner cases that would
have to be
handled (buddy-loading).
In the end I think we still have a long way to go because to
be reusable as
is jar producers would have to:
      - understand how to build good manifests
      - update their version properly
      - put the license files in the bundle
      - make sure that the manifest keys are translatable
      - stop shipping the whole world with their library

To make that happen, eclipse can not be the only one to
push. We (as
consumers of stuffs) need to agree as to what we want to be
produced, and
then have a coordinated push.
<evilplan> if we are fast enough, we will be the
de-facto
standard.....</evilplan>

PaScaL



                                                            
              
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Hi,

* Ben Konrath <bkonrathredhat.com> [2007-03-29
03:43]:
>
> IMO it would be much better for the Orbit project to
undertake the
> task of getting the manifests in the upstream jars.
That would allow
> them to put a process in place to update the manifests
when the need
> arises.

I fully agree.  I don't know why I suggested it earlier - I
guess to
play the devil's advocate 

Thanks,

Andrew
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