Re: [equinox-dev] Inconsistencies in the runtime plugin.xml and manifest

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to remove the bundle manifest
files for runtime and runtime.compatibility since they should be able to
be generated by the manifest generator.  This would illiminate the
need to maintain the manifest and plugin.xml when they both contain very
similar information.  Currently runtime dynamically imports a package
from runtime.compatibility but the code in runtime can be updated to not
require the import of the package by doing a Bundle.loadClass() instead
of Class.forName() to obtain the class from runtime.compatibility.  The
code already does this in two places but a third in Preferences is still
using Class.forName() which requires the import of the packages by runtime.
 

This would illiminate the inconsistencies.
 BTW, I think that runtime should re-export all three osgi bundles
and runtime.compatibility should only re-export runtime.

Thomas Watson

DJ Houghton <DJ_Houghton@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: equinox-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 02/16/2004 06:48 AM

To:        equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx         cc:                 Subject:        Re: [equinox-dev] Inconsistencies in the runtime plugin.xml and manifest.mf files

Oops...I claim responsibility for some of this. I released some of the
new
preferences APIs last night and released a new plugin.xml but not my
changes to the manifest file.



equinox-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/15/2004 11:09:54 PM:

>
> I noticed that the runtime plugin.xml does not re-export org.
> eclipse.osgi.services or org.eclipse.osgi.utils but does re-export
> org.eclispe.osgi itself.  Interestingly, the runtime manifest.mf
> does requires only org.eclipse.osgi. (and re-exports it)
>
> runtime.compatibility requires and re-exports all three osgi bundles
> in both the plugin.xml and the manifest.mf but its plugin.xml
> requires org.eclipse.update.configurator but this is not included
in
> the manifest.mf.
>
> So, there are inconsistencies between runtime and compatibility
> (still don't understand why runtime does not reexport all three osgi
> bundles) and inconsistencies between the plugin.xml and manifest.mf
> for both runtime and runtime.compatibility
>
> Jeff

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