[equinox-dev] changes to the bundle markup

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In a review of the proposed bundle markup
we discovered a couple of inconsitencies or confusing points that we want
to clarify.  

- Qualifier separator is now '.'.  Previously
an OSGi version number was defined as "major.minor.micro-qualifier".
 This was somewhat hard to parse and slightly inconsisten.  We
agreed to change it to "major.minor.micro.qualifier".  

- "provide-packages" parameter
is now "reprovide.   On the Require-Bundle: header there is the
parameter which says that the packages visible from a required bundle are
made available to people who require the requiring bundle.  "provide-packages"
was causing confusion for people (I agree).  So "reprovide"
was suggested and agreed.

The equinox team will make these changes
as soon as possible and release them.  The plan is to have this in
next week's I build.  We are not planning on doing alot of backward
compatibility work.  The qualifier separator was not implemented as
a '-' (it was only a plan) so there is no change there.  The provide
packages change will affect only people who have hand crafted manifest.mfs.
 In general the manifests are generated from the plugin.xmls.  Further,
most hand crafted manifests are legacy related and do not have these new
entries.

Please bear with these changes and address
any issues to this list.

Jeff