> I think what we can do is > give a brief guideline as to what's commonly expected and help people > create correct and useful bundles. Clearing up the version vs. classifier issue would be a good first step.
________________________________ From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:jvan...@sonatype.com] Sent: Tue 1/27/2009 10:43 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: maven / osgi / repositories On 27-Jan-09, at 6:41 PM, Barrie Treloar wrote: >> repositories. They might become OBRs at some point when OSGi becomes >> more "mainstream". > > One thing I have been toying with for a while is to auto-magically > extend maven-jar-plugin to add the OSGi headers. > I really don't think this is a great idea. I think for a bundle to be useful someone needs to provide proper imports and exports. > I haven't given a lot of thought into what I need to do, but if I > recall correctly, getting a simple OSGified jar isn't much work and if > Maven did this out of the box then the maven repository would become > OSGified over time as projects release their artifacts. > We've toyed around with this idea, but if you want something useful I think it's really hard to infer something useful. Making a manifest that is workable with OSGi is not that hard and the author of a package is probably the person to do it. I think what we can do is give a brief guideline as to what's commonly expected and help people create correct and useful bundles. Maven central is the biggest bundle repository in waiting :-) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven jason at sonatype dot com ---------------------------------------------------------- You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. -- Robert Pirzig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
