I think the dependency problem is common to all projects that provide karaf extensions such as commands. I really think the way to go is to have karaf pointint to an external file from karaf web site as I explained in the other thread. That way we could reference camel and other projects too.
I propose to host in subversion the following: karaf/repository/karaf-2.2.xml and karaf/repository/karaf-3.0.xml The whole karaf/repository folder would be synced from svn into http://karaf.apache.org/repository/ We then need to change 2.2.x and 3.x branches to add the respective file as a feature repository. These files would only contain links to other compatible repository descriptors: <features name="karaf-global-${project.version}" xmlns="http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/features/v1.0.0";> <repository>url-to-another-repository</repository> ... </features> If we agree on that, I think we should also trim down a bit the standard descriptor to remove any non core-karaf related features (such as spring, spring-dm, spring-web, and even war). Those would be pushed along with the aries related features from the enterprise descriptor and cellar feature to this global repository. We can then add to this repo any other open source project that provides features such as cxf, camel, activemq (and hopefully others to come). The only thing would be to make sure that if there's no internet connection, karaf still works nicely and that those repositories can be lazy loaded so as to not slow down karaf startup when the descriptor becomes bigger. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 23:59, Ioannis Canellos <ioca...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have committed Cellar as a subproject, so that it can have its own release > cycle: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/cellar/ > Once we make our first release we can add the Cellar features as part of the > standard or enterprise features, as discussed. However, we still need to see > how we are going to implement this, since cellar depends on Karaf. > > For now let's create the subproject to Jira. Jean Baptiste can you do it? > Jamie, could you help me with the release management issues? > > -- > *Ioannis Canellos* > * > http://iocanel.blogspot.com > > Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC > Apache ServiceMix <http://servicemix.apache.org/> Committer > * > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com Connect at CamelOne May 24-26 The Open Source Integration Conference http://camelone.com/
