2009/4/1 Richard S. Hall <[email protected]> > On 3/31/09 7:29 AM, Adrian Trenaman wrote: > >> +1 for the name, and +1 for bringing together the felix and SMX kernels >> communities. >> >> One question though: will Karaf be intimately tied to the Felix OSGi >> implementation? I think that Karaf would be stronger if we can show that it >> works over any OSGi compliant core. Thoughts, anyone? >> > > Are there any Felix subprojects dependent upon the Felix framework > implementation (besides Main, which is the framework launcher) ? >
not AFAIK, but this comes back to people's subconscious view that bundles hosted at a particular framework site are somehow tied to that framework - which is hardly ever true. I guess we need to do more to advertise our bundles can be used on any framework... such as the idea of having a table showing where they had been successfully tested? > -> richard > > >> /Ade >> >> On 31 Mar 2009, at 12:42, James Strachan wrote: >> >> 2009/3/30 Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 19:49, Jamie G. <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I agree, this sounds like a win-win for all involved (as per James / >>>>> Guillaume's post). >>>>> >>>>> As a name submission I'd like Carafe (pronounced "karaf"). A carafe is >>>>> a small container used for serving wine and other drinks >>>>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carafe). In similarity to the name the >>>>> Kernel allows applications to be more easily handled, and improves >>>>> their characteristics (much like a bottle of wine left to breath in a >>>>> decanter) :) >>>>> >>>> >>>> What about Karaf to lower the google hit counts and still preserve the >>>> nice semantic ... >>>> ... and eventually fill the "K" hole of the Apache TLP names list (in >>>> case it ever becomes a TLP later). >>>> >>> >>> And K == Kernel etc :) >>> >>> +1 am liking it. >>> >>> Easy to remember, spell and google search. Unless anyone can think of >>> a better idea. (My ideas were all terrible :) >>> >>> -- >>> James >>> ------- >>> http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> Open Source Integration >>> http://fusesource.com/ >>> >> >> --- >> Adrian Trenaman, Consultant Fellow, PS - Opensource Center of Competence >> Progress Software Corp >> Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland >> --- >> +353-1-637-2659 (Office) >> +353-1-637-2882 (Fax) >> +353-86-6051026 (Mobile) >> adrian.trenaman (Skype) >> ---- >> Blog: http://trenaman.blogspot.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- Cheers, Stuart
