Note that Equinox does have the ability to declare non-code dependencies in
bundle manifests. See Eclipse-GenericCapability and Eclipse-GenericRequire
headers at:
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/bundle_manifest.html
This could be used
It should be up to the system integrator. Actually, there should be metadata
(in p2) that expresses the need for various services to be present to make the
integrator's job easier but ultimately inclusion/activation/... are in the eye
of the beholder. So we should not cod classpath (bundle or pa
We currently use ds in p2 to declare most of our services.
Yet we don't have any particular bundle that declares a dependency on ds.
I can justify this in some respects - theoretically there could be clients
that consume the p2 bundles, declare their own services (using ds or
dynamically) and th
