A quick update on this - I was working too hard.
Getting “SNAPSHOT” in the version for the Export-Package header turns out to be
pretty simple with the following in the bnd.bnd file
Export-Package: org.apache.camel.*;version=${Bundle-Version}
So this won’t be too hard to accomplish
> On Apr 6, 2016, at 10:39 AM, Quinn Stevenson <qu...@pronoia-solutions.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Raul -
>
> I didn’t realize the SNAPSHOTs were always deployed. I tried using the
> SNAPSHOT repository quite a while ago, and it didn’t ever seem to be very
> current.
>
> Regardless, given the way we generate our Import-Package header today (we
> don’t use SNAPSHOT there), the versions will resolve. But I would hope that
> nobody would actually try and use SNAPSHOT versions in production or test. I
> did that with a customer a couple of years ago, and the chaos was tremendous
> - bundles updated at the most inopportune moments, and the environment would
> break. It took quite a while to figure out what was going on and once we
> did, we changed our policy so that SNAPSHOT versions were only used in
> development environments.
>
>
>> On Apr 6, 2016, at 9:39 AM, Raul Kripalani <ra...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Quinn Stevenson <qu...@pronoia-solutions.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Also, since Camel doesn’t really “release” any SNAPSHOT builds, this is a
>>> decision that only effects the development community IMO. People
>>> building/using SNAPSHOT versions must understand what’s going on anyway -
>>> either way will work.
>>
>>
>> Actually we do release nightly SNAPSHOTs:
>> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/camel/camel-core/2.18-SNAPSHOT
>> .
>>
>> And you can install them directly in a modern Karaf container without
>> downloading them first to your local repo. Karaf is configured OOTB to
>> search in the ASF Snapshots repo.
>>
>> $ feature:repo-add camel 2.18-SNAPSHOT
>>
>> and off you go.
>>
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