On 19/03/2008, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was looking at your commons collections bundle here: > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/felix/trunk/commons/commons-collections/pom.xml > > ...and wondering why theres an instruction to NOT import > org.apache.commons.colllections.*? > > This seems to go against the general advice given here: > > "Bnd automatically imports all exports to allow substitutability. If > you do not do this, you create all kinds of standalone class spaces > and things will not work together. It is generally bad practice to > only export a package." > > http://felix.markmail.org/message/qp33zosdp43e2vnv > > I'm asking this because theres likely to be an OSGi enabled release of > Collections from Commons soon (3.3) and I'm wondering if theres a good > reason in this case and whether we should mirror that in commons?
I can't see any reason to exclude those imports myself, and they seem to have been there from the beginning (so they haven't been removed in response to a defect) Carsten, can you confirm this is not actually needed? Niall > -- Cheers, Stuart
