[oscar-devel] Packaging Bundles

[Richard S. H. <he...@un...>]

As I mentioned previously, I am separating the bundles from Oscar and 
OBR will become the official way to get bundle source code and the 
existing Oscar web site will become a bundle repository site.

This raises the question of how should bundle source code be packaged. I 
see at least three alternatives:

   1. Completely self-contained with everything it needs to compile with
      build file.
   2. Containing only the bundle source code with build file and the
      assumption that you will get needed libraries elsewhere (i.e.,
      osgi.jar, osgi-service.jar, osgi-util.jar, servlet.jar).
   3. Containing only the bundle source code with build file that
      assumes it is installed into the Oscar install directory so that
      it can find needed libraries in the lib/ directory.

Personally, I like the first alternative, even if it means that each 
bundle includes its own copy of osgi.jar (for example). Somehow it is 
cleaner to have them self-contained and it makes it easier to use them 
not only with Oscar.

Any other opinions on this matter?

-> richard