Gordon Hirsch wrote:
1. Map its dependency declarations into a standard runtime
representation.
2. Support a standard search model over its stored modules, using the
runtime dependency expressions.
3. Map its stored module data into a standard runtime representation
that can be returned by the search.
One challenge lies in defining the "standard runtime representations"
and "standard search model" in a universal enough way to encompass
OSGi and other module systems. This implies embracing concepts (in
these standard representations and search model) that were not
universally liked by the EG early on. (Split packages and
package-level import/export come to mind.)
Package-level import/export seem like a must, but I still don't see
split packages as a necessity.
-> richard
