On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Christopher Brind<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Niclas, > > Just to be clear - I wasn't advocating using the PDE toolchain, I was > talking about using the manifest editor only but concur with your comments > about Bnd... and everything else. :) > > I've not used Bnd because I work in Eclipse and don't like to replicate the > meta information in multiple places. Eclipse's approach to bundle > development is to store the meta information in a manifest file - which kind > of makes sense to me! So I can't see the pointing in maintaining that meta > information in a format for Bnd as well.
One point; AFAIK, PDE doesn't generate the content that is needed for the Manifest file. You have to manually enter things. Versions have a tendency to be forgotten, and "uses" are so hard to figure out, that I have not seen any PDE user put it in. And without the "uses" directives, an accurate class space can not be created. Examples are listed in chapter 3 of the OSGi spec under 'constraints' somewhere. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug
