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List:       httpclient-commons-dev
Subject:    Re: Drop OSGi support from 5.x?
From:       Gary Gregory <garydgregory () gmail ! com>
Date:       2018-08-14 15:52:01
Message-ID: CACZkXPxHDcxCbwsj6aMzHnKr+C-wVhhYo1hdLfEa+esPLKxTag () mail ! gmail ! com
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Why do we have a separate OSGi jar file? Over at Apache Commons, we try to
put whatever is needed in the MANIFEST.MF and that's that.

Gary

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:20 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk@apache.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 21:17 +0200, Michael Osipov wrote:
> > Am 2018-08-13 um 17:31 schrieb Oleg Kalnichevski:
> > > Folks
> > >
> > > Do we want to continue supporting OSGi? We cannot do it properly,
> > > so we
> > > might as well not do it at all.
> >
> > Is it only about the MANIFEST.MF?
> > If we cannot reasonably maintain it because of lack of knowledge, it
> > is
> > better then not to provide something than provide something broken.
> >
>
> Yes, this is mostly about maintaining an extra module with a custom
> MANIFEST.MF. The trouble is that we do not test our OSGi modules and
> basically ship them untested.
>
> Oleg
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