The split packages were really a vehicle to make auto-generation of osgi
metatdata possible. It is nice too that they offer a quick visual clue
into the intent. I agree that an annotation would work as well for some
aspects of this. But using annotations would make the osgi auto-gen harder
for s
Looks like we're all aligned?
Steve made some concrete examples, Emmanuel pointed out how we have
been defining this vs. apparently other people.
I don't feel the need to change our interpretation, if that's what is
being discussed.
It's good to remember that there are different kinds of SPIs; we
You misread me. I have to plan to change the meaning of SPI. I just
pointed the few most prominent definitions I have found while
researching the subject. What did strike me though is that SPI is much
less defined and explained than I anticipated.
What I am questioning is whether an API / SPI spli
Deja vu as we have had this exact discussion before (and actually, our
discussions pre-date those TAG discussions)
You are basing your specific reading of what SPI means based on a single
wikipedia page that goes out of its way to point out its incompleteness :)
And really even then in my opi