Hi Pradeep,

I do understand the fact that this is perhaps the P2 convention, which
we've violated for some reason in the first place. But, now when we are
changing this, what other aspects would require changing. What about the
extensions that people build? How will dropins work and all?

Thanks,
Senaka.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Pradeep Fernando <prad...@wso2.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> More descriptive explanation.
>
> * in maven build the artifacts are generated as
> "org.wso2.carbon.foo-x.y.z.SNAPSHOT"
> * The default p2-director changes this name to
> "org.wso2.carbon.foo_x.y.z.SNAPSHOT", during bundle installation to
> /plugins folder.
> * Earlier carbon versions used to alter this behaviour by patching
> p2-director/related bundles.
> *During the migration we made sure that there are minimal set of patched
> bundles (equinox) - right now only one(simpleConfigurator)
> *If we are going to change "_" to "-" we have to patch two environments
>     1. The director related bundles in repository/components/pluigns -
> fascilitate feature installation from carbon-console
>     2. The director found in p2-equinox minimal distribution - p2_agent
> * we are no longer maintaining a p2_agent within our sources. This makes
> it trivial to migrate to future equinox versions.
> * we may have to change the patching code to transparently change "-" to
> "_" conversion during patching.
>
>
> thanks,
> --Pradeep
>
>
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