Sounds like a good idea.

Wouldn't it also make sense to include the recompiled osgi-4.3-specs
there? JB once said on IRC that the plan was to include them in felix,
but until that happens maybe that's a place to put them.

kind regards,
christoph

On 18/10/12 09:09, Charles Moulliard wrote:
> I completely agree with this idea. That could also help us to provide a
> kind of "web" repo of the different features available and include more
> like Pax Web, KarafEE, Camel, CXf, ActiveMQ, JClouds, ....
> 
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently, Karaf provides features that it doesn't use directly and
>> internally.
>>
>> For instance, it's the case for:
>> - enterprise features (leveraging Aries),
>> - spring features
>>
>> As those features are provided by Karaf, the features version is coupled
>> to the Karaf version.
>> For instance, Karaf 2.3.0 provides Spring 3.0.x features, and providing
>> Spring 3.1 features or just upgrading to a new Spring 3.0.x features
>> requires a new Karaf release.
>> It's not very flexible, and it doesn't give to the users the liberty of
>> picking up the version that he wants.
>>
>> My proposal is to create a Karaf Features sub-project where we can host
>> this kind of features. Each feature has its own release cycle, allowing to
>> completely decoupled from the Karaf release.
>>
>> From an user perspective, it's just mean to addurl of the corresponding
>> features descriptor that I want (or use the new chooseurl command).
>>
>> More over, some projects may provide bundles but not the corresponding
>> Karaf features. So waiting for our contribution to those projects, we can
>> provide features descriptor.
>>
>> If you are OK, I would like to begin by creating a sub-project looking
>> like:
>>
>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/**asf/karaf<https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf>
>> -> features
>> --> enterprise
>> --> spring
>> Each features should be atomic and independent from another.
>>
>> NB: we discussed some months ago about providing Karaf Features Repository
>> in Cave. This step could a "transition" step to that.
>>
>> WDYT ?
>>
>> Regards
>> JB
>> --
>> Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>> [email protected]
>> http://blog.nanthrax.net
>> Talend - http://www.talend.com
>>
> 
> 
> 


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