Hi, Felix Meschberger schrieb: >> I think the versioning scheme is OK, as it supports the needed requirements. >> >> I very much like the idea of just releasing single bundles, as it allows >> faster bug fixing and improvement/enhancement of funtionality. But from >> a user perspective it should be ensured that there are regular releases >> of webapp and standalone app. On the one hand this allows releasing of a >> set of bundles wich are ensured to work together. On the other hand it >> prevents users that start with sling in one or two years from starting >> with an old sling version and installing all new bundles again. >> > > Agreed. This is why it says: "For convenience we may create standalone > and web application releases once or twice a year. These applications > though would just be packagings of already released bundles." :-) > I've seen it. Just wanted to point out that this is important for users of sling :-) >> BTW, is there a way to define a set of bundles which certainly work >> together. Can this be done with the assembly feature? If so we could >> just release assemblies containing newest sling bundles once or twice a >> year. >> > > Basically yes, but: The OSGi Compendium 1.4 has a Deployment Admin > Specification which defines a deployment package file format and and > respective administrative API. In the Apache Felix project we are > currently waiting for the paper work to be finished for a contribution > of an implementation of that specification. As soon as that one is in > Apache Felix, we might well provide Deployment Packages of Sling > Bundles. > Sounds great! Relying on standards for deployment is the best way for future compatibility with other OSGi implementations or if someone would like to combine sling with other code that can be deployed as bundles. > On short term, we might well create assemblies for them. Good proposals > for creation of such assemblies are welcome, of course :-) >
What do you mean with creation? If you refer to identification of bundles that can be deployed together I think this should be done with some integration tests (or test suite) which can be tested against different combinations of bundle versions. Regards, Alex
