I agree with the following very much!
>That we use bndlib internally is a good (and the right) thing but it
is >just that: an implementation detail.
Thanks
--Tang
Felix Meschberger wrote:
Hi
Thanks for the heads up and thanks for your work you put into this. This is
really appreciated and the also community wise the plugin is really a key in
the OSGi tooling.
Having said that I appreciate the desire to align with Maven best practices but
I share the same concerns as Sahoo: The Maven Bundle Plugin has a good name in
the community and thus should not be changed too quickly and easily.
Also, I don't think it should be renamed to "bnd", after all it is a plugin to
build bundles and should IMHO reflect that fact for the benefit of our users. That we use
bndlib internally is a good (and the right) thing but it is just that: an implementation
detail.
How about a compromise: Just switch from maven-bundle-plugin to
bundle-maven-plugin ? Also: How complex would it be to setup aliases ?
Regards
Felix
Am 28.02.2013 um 08:43 schrieb Sahoo:
Stuart,
I really appreciate all the effort you put in to make this plugin so
great. But, I am afraid, I can't support the renaming. It is going to
frustrate developers already frustrated with lack of good OSGi tools.
maven-bundle-plugin works great and we have many people used it now. The
renaming is going to confuse them than doing any good that I can think
of. I really don't see why maven has this convention that only plugins
hosted by Apache Maven can have names starting maven. Please consider -1
on behalf of GlassFish.
Thanks,
Sahoo
On Thursday 28 February 2013 02:56 AM, Stuart McCulloch wrote:
Hi folks,
Now that we've got a 2.x version of bndlib in Maven Central
(http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Cbiz.aQute%7Cbndlib%7C2.0.0.20130123-133441%7Cjar
- same level as shipped in bndtools 2) I'm looking to sort out a new release
of the maven-bundle-plugin, once I've gone through and triaged the pending
issues in JIRA.
I also figure that now might be the best time to "fix" the plugin name according to Maven
guidelines: http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-plugin-documentation.html - apparently the name
"maven-NNN-plugin" is supposed to be reserved for plugins hosted by Apache Maven, while plugins
hosted elsewhere should use names like "NNN-maven-plugin".
So along with the upgrade to bndlib 2.x, I'm proposing to change the plugin
name to:
bnd-maven-plugin
which both respects the Maven plugin naming convention, and recognises the bnd
code which is actually doing most of the work.
WDYT?
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Cheers, Stuart
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Felix Meschberger | Principal Scientist | Adobe
