Re: [ecf-dev] Run Eclipse Remote Service Admin on Apache Karaf

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alex,

On 11/27/2012 2:54 PM, Alex Blewitt wrote:

org.eclipse.core.runtime has a dependency on the org.eclipse.equinox.common;bundle-version="[3.6.100,4.0.0) which now has a dependency on org.eclipse.osgi;bundle-version="[3.7.0,4.0.0)"

So the core runtime can no longer run on Felix. This didn't used to be the case, and is a change outside of the ECF codebase, but the dependency to org.eclipse.core.runtime prevents its use on Felix.

I heard from Tom Watson on this, and he indicated that he doesn't see any dependency of equinox.common on org.eclipse.osgi in most recent version...i.e. here's from the source code:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/equinox/rt.equinox.bundles.git/tree/bundles/org.eclipse.equinox.common/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

He also mentioned that all the dependencies that equinox.common references should be resolved by a bundle that I was not aware of...i.e.

org.eclipse.equinox.supplement

I'm currently trying to determine where this bundle is in the Equinox git repo, and to understand it myself.

Do you (Alex) have info about some other Equinox incompatibility?   I will try out a recent version of Felix and Equinox myself asap and report results here. 

Thanks,

Scott