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

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