[equinox-dev] osgi application service

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Equinox implements the osgi application service 
(org.osgi.service.application) via this bundle:

org.eclipse.equinox.app

This bundle has compile-time dependencies on both the equinox service 
registry (org.eclipse.equinox.registry), and PackageAdmin which for some 
environments are a disadvantage.  The org.osgi.service.application 
package is also present in the same bundle as the implementation, which 
is a debatable choice.

Would there be any appetite to refactor the org.eclipse.equinox.app 
bundle (perhaps into multiple dependent bundles) so as to:

1) Separate the impl of org.osgi.service.application from the parts that 
are dependent upon the equinox service registry (so as to allow use of 
the application service without the service registry)
2) Remove deps to PackageAdmin service
3) Possibly separating the org.osgi.service.application classes from the 
equinox impl.

?

Scott