Hi Felix devs,
I had some free time today and did some investigations about what would
be necessary to change BundleRepository to support Repository spec
version 1.1.
I noted that BundleRepository has a dependency to org.apache.felix.utils
and both depends on old compendium and core 5.0. also they uses
different parent versions.
So I found that changing BundleRepository to support v1.1 certainly will
require both compendium and core be upgraded to 7.0 due the new
Repository class to require the newest Resource from Core.
Changing org.apache.felix.utils probably will affect other projects...
How you guys used to deal with that ?
Specifically about BundleRepositoy, I found that its current version
works with different packages providing basically same kind of classes.
Many of them are interfaces already provided by osgi alliance. for
example, Resource, Requirement, Capability, Repository and others. And
both felix.util and BundleRepository projects implements some of them.
examples :
* org.osgi.service.obr.Resource;
* org.apache.felix.bundlerepository.Resource;
* org.apache.felix.bundlerepository.Repository;
* org.osgi.service.repository.Repository;
* org.osgi.resource.Resource;
* org.apache.felix.bundlerepository.impl.ResourceImpl
* org.apache.felix.bundlerepository.impl.CapabilityImpl;
* org.apache.felix.bundlerepository.impl.RequirementImpl;
* org.apache.felix.utils.resource.ResourceImpl;
* org.apache.felix.utils.resource.CapabilityImpl;
* org.apache.felix.utils.resource.RequirementImpl;
I believe that many of those interfaces/classes was created before the
spec in order to support the old OBR.
But would be really necessary to keep them forever or would be possible
to do a major release dropping support for older stuffs and removing
duplicated ones?
thanks and best regards,
Cristiano
