Thanks Peter, for your piece "The Package as Contract" http://www.osgi.org/blog/2011/08/package-as-contract.html
It seems to follow with this thread and it clarifies some of the points about the intentions around package version management I was still a little fuzzy on. I'm not going to say it's going to be easy for us (due to a huge api), but now I have more material to offer my colleagues about what we need to do as we evolve into this model. Thanks, Ray On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Lindsay Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone who replied, > > Neil - thanks for explicitly bringing up the Semantic Versioning paper - > it's the anticipation that adhering to that system will bring a great deal > of benefit to me is the main reason I want to sort out an automated > solution. Thanks also for your invitation to discuss bndtools at some > point. I'd like to do that - I'll first go over bndtools in more detail > again so that I'm informed and then I'll reach out to you sometime to talk. > > Peter - thanks for the detail about how bnd calculates imports, and for > your perspective on automation. I also greatly appreciate that you've > designed bnd to be agnostic to build tools - which is exactly the right > thing to do. That fact that the maven bnd plugin works so well is > testament to that. > > It seems we all agree there needs to be automation of package version > checking - but there isn't a complete picture of how it all goes together at > this stage. I have in my own head some ideas about the kind of process I'd > like, I'm hoping that by exploring bndtools again and by talking to Neil > I'll be able to frame those ideas against the current systems. It's > certainly frustrating, as it must be for all of us who believe in the value > in the OSGI model, that there isn't more funding available to develop the > tools and processes of OSGI development. I personally think that the > tooling is really all that's standing in the way of more adoption, I look > forward to future progress in this area. > > Lindsay > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > [email protected] > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > -- Raymond Augé <http://twitter.com/#!/rotty3000> Senior Software Architect Liferay, Inc. <http://www.liferay.com> <https://twitter.com/#!/liferay> -- Liferay West Coast Symposium September 21-22, 2011 Register today: www.liferay.com/WCS2011 New! Going to the Symposium? Add Portal Admin Training Express<http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=991750> or Building Themes in Liferay<http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=991751>
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