On 8/7/09 10:44, David Savage wrote:
Bizarrely we're having a similar internal conversation here at Paremus
about other native libraries the issue (courtesy of Holger Hoffstatte)
is related to this one:
https://www.osgi.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38
So perhaps I won't hold my breath...
Unfortunately, that is not easy to resolve. Once you get into native
code and the native code needs a native library, then OSGi is no longer
under control, so it doesn't get asked. The only solution is to extract
native libraries from bundles in platform-specific ways to make them
available to the operating system. That could further open up issues
with respect to dynamism, however.
Luckily, I think the SWT thing is easier to resolve.
Would be good not to create hundreds of command line launchers if one
simple one will do most of what we want...From the sigil side I just
need a relatively stable launcher that allows me to say to say install
this, start that etc.
Actually, the recent changes I made to the Felix framework launcher were
a result of my experience with the book launcher, since I found its
ability to simply install and start bundles in a directory to be handy.
I am looking at modifying Felix' framework launcher to make it use only
the standard launching API, at which point it would become a slightly
more complicated version of the generic launcher I just sent to the list
a couple of messages ago.
-> richard
