Well, the minimal distribution we have "was always meant" to be the minimum possible distro, that could allow everything else to start via features. So I am 100% aligned with Christian on this.
The only reason that the minimal distribution does not look like this already, is that it has been a bit painful to isolate and decouple parts of Karaf from each other. So the minimal distro could just be: osgi framework + config admin + scr + pax-url + karat features. In my demo branch (https://github.com/iocanel/karaf/tree/karaf-light) it looks like this with the addition of shell, but that can be made optional too. @Achim: Even though I see real value in such a thin server . The real value comes from making Karaf so modular that it makes the extremely thin server possible ;-) Don't forget that we are building a runtime for modular applications, making the runtime itself modular is a must imho. -- Ioannis Canellos Blog: http://iocanel.blogspot.com Twitter: iocanel
