Hi Barbara, 

Could you clarify please? The version range [2.10.0,3.0.0) certainly does 
include 2.10.0.SNAPSHOT.

Regarding why the version range is sometimes missing. In order to generate the 
import range, bnd (and therefore maven bundle plugin) needs to know what 
version of the exported package you were building against. Some of the time 
this is visible to bnd and it therefore generates a range.

However, you may be building a JAR in isolation, i.e. without its dependencies, 
so there is no exporter to check. Or you may be building against a plain-JAR 
dependency rather than an OSGi bundle. Or or you may be building against a 
bundle that doesn't have versions on its exports.

Bnd does the best it can with the information available to it at build time, 
but if the information about the exported version is not available then it 
simply cannot generate an import range. Debatably, bnd could output a warning 
or error when this is the case.

Regards,
Neil


On Wednesday, 12 October 2011 at 12:13, Barbara Rosi-Schwartz wrote:

> Hello everyone.
> 
> I am using the Maven bundle plugin to OSGi-ify a set of projects that are 
> non-OSGi. I have two projects, A and B, with B declaring a dependency on A. A 
> is at version 2.10.0-SNAPSHOT and I am declaring a dependency from that 
> version in B's pom.xml.
> 
> However, when the Maven bundle plugin creates the MANIFEST.MF files for both 
> projects, it A's manifest declares:
> 
> Export-Package: com.acme.projecta.domain; version="2.10.0.SNAPSHOT" (as 
> expected)
> 
> But B's manifest declares:
> <Import-Package: com.acme.projecta.domain; version="[2.10.0,3.0.0)"
> 
> Note how the version range in the Import-Package directive is wrong as it 
> does not include 2.10.0.SNAPSHOT.
> 
> What could I possibly be doing wrong? And why sometimes I see a version range 
> being declared in the Import-Package directive and sometimes this is missing 
> altogether?
> 
> TIA,
> B.
> 
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