On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Cristiano Gavião <cvgav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ray, > > understood ! thanks for the explanation ! > > btw, do you think that worth to open a request to Equinox to move to GoGo > 1.x ? > Probably a good idea! - Ray > regards, > > > Cristiano > > > > On 04/03/2017 18:34, Raymond Auge wrote: > >> At one point the gogo shell was subject of an OSGi RFP attempting to >> create >> a shell specification. During that time and according the Apache Felix's >> policy on consuming and implementing OSGi API, the packages of the >> in-progress project in felix used the org.apache.felix namespace and were >> marked provisional as you have noticed. >> >> Fast forward several years and the shell specification never progressed >> any >> further. However gogo did, still having the provisional attribute on it's >> packages. >> >> Moving further forward to late 2016 when some fairly significant work was >> done to gogo and finally it was decided that after almost a decade gogo >> should become finally version 1.0.0 and at that time since an OSGi spec >> was >> now far from likely the attribute provisional was dropped. >> >> The provisional attribute is merely a hint to developers to be aware that >> the API they are consuming is likely to be subject to change, more so than >> in pure semantic ways. It could suddenly become incompatible with no >> explanation because the design is not yet finalized. >> >> I hope this helps explain things. :) >> >> - Ray >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Cristiano Gavião <cvgav...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hello, >>> >>> Eclipse Equinox have been using GoGo since version 3.8 (I think it is >>> Juno) and since that they do not upgrade gogo version (0.8.0). >>> >>> But even Eclipse team do not upgrading gogo's version, to use newer >>> versions was just a simple matter to deploy the new bundles into the >>> container and enjoy (until GoGo version 0.16.4). >>> >>> Today I decided to try the latest gogo version (1.0.2) and sadly it was >>> not possible this time. >>> >>> Further investigation shows me that *org.eclipse.equinox.console* has >>> this >>> import: org.apache.felix.service.command;*/status=provisional/*, but new >>> gogo version do not exports that anymore. >>> >>> >>> Could someone explain me why was this status=provisional added anyway ? >>> >>> >>> regards, >>> >>> Cristiano >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org > > -- *Raymond Augé* <http://www.liferay.com/web/raymond.auge/profile> (@rotty3000) Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* <http://www.liferay.com> (@Liferay) Board Member & EEG Co-Chair, OSGi Alliance <http://osgi.org> (@OSGiAlliance)
