Bill Shannon wrote:
> Richard S. Hall wrote:
>> This is something that Sahoo brought up within Felix.
>>
>> One issue is that Felix doesn't currently handle this the way that
>> Sahoo had envisioned. In Felix we actually tried to map the OSGi
>> version information into the Package information; thus, we ignored
>> any other manifest entries relating to this.
>>
>> Sahoo has reported that he would prefer it if Felix simply obeyed the
>> manifest entries for the Package metadata and did not try to map OSGi
>> metadata into it. Currently, this is an RFE at Felix which I am
>> looking into.
>>
>> I see no reason why both cannot be supported, since OSGi, by default
>> ignores the Package entries. However, the OSGi spec doesn't mandate
>> any behavior in this area so it is not clear that you can 100% rely
>> on it being the same on every framework.
>
> Why wouldn't we just create the OSGi manifest entries *and* the Package
> manifest entries, some of which would have the same values? The
> implementations
> reading the entries don't *need* to cooperate at all.
Right, that was what I was trying to say. But the other point remains,
you cannot guarantee that framework implementations will process the
Package entries, so if you want to see those entries when you are
running as a bundle, then you are at the mercy of the framework impl.
-> richard
>
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