Re: Why do the docs claim a DEPENDENCIES file is needed?

2020-09-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 3:05 AM David Jencks wrote: > > https://felix.apache.org/documentation/development/dependencies-file-template.html > claims that each > released software archive (what is that? source? compiled? ???) must contain a > “DEPENDENCIES” file http://apache.org/legal/rel

Re: Why do the docs claim a DEPENDENCIES file is needed?

2020-09-03 Thread Raymond Auge
+1 I haven't understood the need or use of this. But I wasn't sure if this was a felix project thing, or an ASF thing so I ignored it. - Ray On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 9:05 PM David Jencks wrote: > > https://felix.apache.org/documentation/development/dependencies-file-template.html > claims that e

Why do the docs claim a DEPENDENCIES file is needed?

2020-09-03 Thread David Jencks
https://felix.apache.org/documentation/development/dependencies-file-template.html claims that each released software archive (what is that? source? compiled? ???) must contain a “DEPENDENCIES” file. Why? The information in it is either useless and misleading for OSGI (if the dependency is not