Hi, I really like this idea of separate feature files. And I think we really should at least give it a try. I fully understand the "fears" of Ioannis, Guillaume and Freeman cause as I tried to seperate the pax-web features from Karaf I just stumbled over a couple of constraint I didn't see right from the beginning. Like Camel depends on the http feature, this feature also provides Karaf specific commands and so forth. I think it can be done and I'll try to work on this as soon as possible, still I think we will find such shortcomings with other features, too.
But if we stick to the way it is right now, we do get the feedback it's not modular enough :) regards, Achim 2012/10/18 Christian Schneider <ch...@die-schneider.net>: > I think the goal to have separate feature files that are independent of the > karaf version is good. > Like Ioannis I am also unsure if it can be done right now. At least the > recent karaf versions would not have allowed that. > So before really starting this we should make sure we can deliver these > independent feature files. > > Christian > > > On 10/18/2012 09:52 AM, Ioannis Canellos wrote: >> >> The idea seems good at first glance, but there are things that we need >> consider. >> >> In many cases a feature descriptor is not portable between major Karaf >> versions, and it also happens that it breaks between minor versions. >> >> Even from Karaf 2.2.x to Karaf 2.3.x I've seen third party features break. >> So it may seem that most features could decoupled from the underlying >> version of Karaf, but practically this is not always the case. >> >> An example: In the spring feature case, we also have the spring deployer. >> Where will the source of spring deployer will be hosted and which are >> going >> to be the versions of fileinstall and karaf that the deployer will be >> built >> against? >> >> > -- Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC OPS4J Pax Web <http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web/> Committer & Project Lead OPS4J Pax for Vaadin <http://team.ops4j.org/wiki/display/PAXVAADIN/Home> Commiter & Project Lead blog <http://notizblog.nierbeck.de/>
