Hi Marcel, Some comments inline...
Regards, Dave On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Marcel Offermans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello David, > > First, thanks for offering this codebase to Felix! More tooling is > definitely a good thing for OSGi. > > On May 5, 2009, at 10:17 , David Savage wrote: > >> Whilst Sigil integrates with eclipse the intention is not to be a >> replacement for PDE, though at the moment it has some comparable >> features, in the long term I'd like to see both projects sharing >> common code base if at all possible. It is not the intention to be an >> uber framework either - ideally just specify a number of core API's >> for extension and let other projects, PDE, Maven, Ivy, etc do there >> own thing in their own space. > > One model I am interested in is support for having a whole "class space" in > a single Eclipse project, instead of having to have one project per bundle. > Would these tools allow such a setup? Judging from a comment further down in > your mail: > >> * Multiple bundle projects: currently the ivy build can build projects >> which create more than one bundle, however the representation of this >> is difficult in the UI. Is this a good/bad/ugly idea? Other options? >> (I have some ideas but to verbose to list here) > > I would say "yes". We use this model internally for many OSGi projects we do > and it allows us to easily redefine the packaging of projects. The > "downside" mainly being that you have to have one consistent class space > (but in most applications that is what you want anyway). I definitely would > not mind discussing this some more. Btw, the Apache Ace project will be an > example of this build structure, that should be visible to all soon. So the answer is kind of grey at the moment - in the server side build we do support multiple bundles per project, but currently the IDE ignores this. The reason for this is purely related to user interation with the UI vs any strong anthropic principles ;) in that the representation of a multi bundle project is difficult in the UI. The model I've been thinking of to do this is having one PDE (like) page per bundle. This could be represented as tabs or completely different pages. The downside of tabs is that the user disappears under a see of tabs if not done well) The downside of different pages is that in a trivial case this means having multiple files in the workspace - which could be viewed as overkill... In the long term if we can make this work well in the UI and on the filesystem I'm definately in favour of it... > >> * Repository Abstraction - API to allow plugin of different repository >> providers adapts filesystem and obr at present > > Does this include an API to "upload" new bundles to a repository? Not at the moment but it's something I've debated and could definitely be a medium term goal... > >> - Dependency visualisation - graphical view of bundle dependencies > > Others have commented on this, having a view of all kinds of dependencies > would be nice. Package and service dependencies, but also things like > visualisation of events, wires (as in WireAdmin), ... Sure - I think we are just at the entrance to this rabit hole... > >> - Version Policies - Rules for working with version ranges in >> workspace - [1.0.0,*), [1.0.0, 1.1), [1.0.0,1.0.0] etc > > Would this include defining a policy and validating if changes in bundles > are consistent with this policy (making sure a bugfix is only a bugfix and > does not introduce any change in exported / API packages)? Um nope, though I understand PDE does this - it's more for the importer to decide how they want to manage the import ranges in their workspace. Basically you can define a workspace policy for how imports are generated based on user input - instead of having to always state you want to do [1.0.0,*) or [1.0.0,2.0.0) or [1.0.0,1.1.0) you can specify a general rule that when you specify x.y.z as the root version you depend on how the following range is generated... So if I say (using quick fix) import 1.0.1, my workspace rule could be configured to automatically translate this into [1.0.1,1.1.0). This makes it easier to define policies for working with imports...again this rabit whole is kind of deep but it's an attempt to make working with OSGi import ranges easier for the user. > >> What are the next steps if there is any interest from the Felix community? > > In short, add code to Jira issue, submit Software Grant. > >> * For code that is not of interest how can this be managed - should we >> donate all code and then prune later - or do we need to prune early? > > Since donating code has some administrative / legal overhead, I would advise > you to donate everything in one go. Other then that, I have no real > preference for pruning before or after, except maybe the community might be > of help with the process (even though you are probably most familiar with > the codebase). > >> * Commiter status - in order that any donation does not stagnate it >> would be useful to have at least one committer to apache from paremus. >> Either/both myself or Derek Baum would be happy to undertake this >> role... > > I'm sure we will gladly accept anybody who demonstrates that they maintain > the code as a committer (we've done so with various other contributions in > the past). > > Greetings, Marcel > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paremus Limited. Registered in England. 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