On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Carsten Ziegeler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I really appreciate the work spent in this stuff - but how many > different ways do we now have to configure the bundle list? And none > of them is really satisfying I think. Still the best approach we have > right now from a configuration point of view is imho the separate xml > file. as i said before, it's error prone and not supported by IDEs.
> The best way would be to annotate dependencies in the pom directly > with their start level - which is - according to the maven guys - not > possible atm. > But we really want to go this way, I think this is possible, e.g. we > could define an xml namespace we use in the pom and then just do: > <dependency sling:startLevel="1"> that would be great. > so we annotate the dependency element with our own attribute in our > namespace. Maven does not complain about this. We could then just read > the pom file ourselves to parse the annotations or use xslt to convert > it to a bundle list or any other clever way. > > If others think that this way would be much better than the other ways > we now have, I'm happy to implement it. +1 sounds good to me
