Hi there, I'm getting closer to a 1.0 of sigil but before one is published I think it would be sensible to look at one of the big things that has popped up a number of times in conversation with third parties about sigil. That being the use of yet another file format. One option which seems quite attractive is to reuse the BND properties file format. I thought I'd post a mail here to see if others have any opinions on this...
Note this would not imply an automatic conversion from BND to sigil as BND is a post compile tool where as Sigil is a pre compile tool - as such one large differentiator is the need to specify Import-Package statements - in BND the tooling figures out the appropriate Import-Package headers based on the bundles available in the classpath - so setting up the Import-Package header is generally not required. In sigil we use the Import-Package and Require-Bundle statement to setup the classpath so manual set up the classpath is not generally required. The other potential gotcha is around support for multi bundle projects - I've heard that BND now supports this feature, but I've not seen any examples of this in the wild. But certainly I'm interested in other peoples experiences/opinions on this. Overall I think this would be a useful simplification for users as they then only need to learn one properties file format. Any downsides? Regards, Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org
