I meant to collect more simple stats: how many interface users vs
interface implementers.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [osgi-dev] Interpretation of semantic versioning?
From: Neil Bartlett <[email protected]>
To: OSGi Developer Mail List <[email protected]>
Date: Mon 15 Apr 2013 01:07:32 AM CDT
> How?
>
> If such a scanning tool could exist, and was able to tell the
> difference between a consumer type and a provider type in arbitrary
> code, then we could use the same technique in our build tool and
> dispense with the Provider/ConsumerType annotations.
>
> Neil
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Andrei Pozolotin
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [osgi-dev] Interpretation of semantic versioning?
>> From: BJ Hargrave <[email protected]>
>> To: OSGi Developer Mail List <[email protected]>
>> Date: Sun 14 Apr 2013 04:58:32 PM CDT
>>
>>> I certainly agree with Emily that having a default of @ProviderType
>>> is sensible, since the normal case for most APIs is to call methods
>>> on it, not to implement interfaces of it.
>> People keep saying this without presenting any data to back it up. I don't
>> know that answer but I am not making any claim here.
>>
>> conceivably, a tool could be made to scan
>> * osgi alliance bundles
>> * maven central
>> * spring obr
>> * etc
>>
>> and collect empirical stats to answer this question.
>>
>>
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