Niclas Hedhman wrote:
On Thursday 10 January 2008 23:09, Richard S. Hall wrote:
There is no attempt by any of our sub-projects to specifically tie
themselves to the Felix framework as far as I am aware. I think we want
all of our work to be interoperable where possible, so I think this is a
non-issue.
Yes, that is a good goal and I salute that. In general, we are more often than
not met with positive comments when trying to resolve cross-platform issues.
But, I was thinking more "mentality-wise". People who use KF, first go and
check the KF's set of bundles, the Equinox-based folks will search the
Eclipse site first... and so on.
Why is that? Because the KF developed bundles are tested on KF only, the
Eclipse stuff is practically only tested on Equinox and so forth. This sends
the signal that it is a "safer bet" to choose from within the same community.
It's all in our heads!
I am fairly certain we have sub-projects that test against other
frameworks too.
At OPS4J we *try* to ensure that everything gets tested on all the frameworks
we claim to support. And with Pax Runner, we try to force all the frameworks
into a configuration that is as close to each other as possible...
End of the day, I think we want to remain "un-associated" with a framework,
and a strong cross-framework interoperability focus. I think it will benefit
us all.
As long as we act like this is a distinct goal, then it makes it so.
-> richard
Cheers
