On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:42 PM, sebb<seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27/07/2009, Mat Booth <fed...@matbooth.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 27/07/2009, sebb wrote:
>>  > I had a quick look at this. It would be trivial to copy the OSGI
>>  > headers as generated by the Maven build, but autogenerating the
>>  > headers (so they would still be OK if the source changed) looks
>>  > somewhat harder.
>>  >
>>  > For one thing, the "bnd" jar tool seems to need Java 1.5 or later. I
>>  > don't think we should force the use of 1.5 for a library that targets
>>  > 1.4.
>>  >
>>  > Also, I could not get it to work from Ant; it seemed to run, but did 
>> nothing.
>>  >
>>
>>
>> Is a build environment of 1.5 a problem? I thought that only the
>>  runtime environment had to be 1.4.
>
> IMO if code is supposed to run on 1.4 it should be buildable on 1.4.

You could download an earlier version that runs on 1.4 - looks like
0.0.257 should be OK

http://www.aqute.biz/repo/biz/aQute/bnd/0.0.257/bnd-0.0.257.jar

Niall

> It should be possible, but tedious, to make the OSGI generation
> dependent on Java 1.5 + presence of the "bnd" add-on. Perhaps it could
> be done via a new target.
>
>>  Should I raise a bug so that this can be addressed at a later date?
>>
>
> A JIRA enhancement request would allow easier tracking.
> And if you can provide a patch, so much the better.
>
>>
>>  --
>>
>> Mat Booth
>>
>>  A: Because it destroys the order of the conversation.
>>  Q: Why shouldn't you do it?
>>  A: Posting your reply above the original message.
>>  Q: What is top-posting?
>>
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