On 27/07/2009, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:45 PM, sebb<seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 27/07/2009, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 > > > > Tried that, I still get > > > > java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: aQute/bnd/ant/OrderTask > > (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0) > > > > It looks like Maven uses Bnd-0.0.238; I may try that. > > > > I haven't yet been able to work out how to get Bnd to create the OSGI > > manifest alone, as is done by the Maven bundle plugin. > > > I dont know the plugin, but looking at the code it looks like it > generates the jar and extracts the manifest: > > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/felix/releases/maven-bundle-plugin-2.0.0/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/bundleplugin/ManifestPlugin.java > > So it looks like either you would have to do something similar or just > use Bnd to create the jar
I was beginning to wonder if that would be necessary ... seems to me that this will be quite a lot of work for no direct gain to Commons. Let's wait for a patch ;-) > > Niall > > > >> 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
