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A clarification. It's easy to forget that the Eclipse IDE isn't the only environment where OSGi bundles can be used and that the Eclipse release train isn't the only distribution channel. In many cases it makes a lot of sense to declare a wish to "install X if it is available and doesn't cause conflict" and that's actually what the optional attribute was designed for. I can understand why this in some cases could be considered bad practice in the limited scope the release train (after all, everything is indeed available so it will be installed), but it's often necessary to think beyond that scope when packaging general purpose bundles. For bundles commonly installed in the IDE, an optional + greedy will cause no harm. As Laurent points out, they will be present anyway. In other environments this combination is very useful. I must confess that I don't understand why projects that exploit this feature are hunted down and blamed. It seems to me that everyone suspects that they don't know what they are doing. Obviously they do. Just my 2c, - thomas On 05/29/2012 10:06 AM, Thomas Hallgren wrote: On 05/29/2012 09:35 AM, Laurent Goubet wrote:Hi,No, you're not wrong. This is exactly the kind of scenario that the greedy attribute was supposed to cover. |
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