[news.eclipse.rt] Re: Extend the runtime project scope

[Christian Campo <christian.campo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Markus,

are you saying that projects in RT are required to run against other R4 implementations. What if projects in RT does not 
have that requirment. Cant they live in that space anymore ?

I think nothing stops a project to commit to go beyond the requirements of the top level project. But thats not 
necessarily true for all projects.

What about Extensions that are in the Equinox SDK but probably not in a Felix SDK I assume ? I know they would run there 
but they are not part of the R4 spec as I recall. So is using Extensions as the Workbench does all over the place a 
forbidden thing then for a RT project ?

just my 2 cent

christian


Markus Alexander Kuppe schrieb:
> Jeff McAffer wrote:
> > Markus,
> >
> > That certainly is a good goal however Equinox offers many extensions 
> > that are required in real runtime scenarios.  Saying that all RT 
> > project output has to run on any R4 framework would limit our ability 
> > to exploit those facilities.
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Jeff,
>
> that pretty much sounds like the OSGi R4 spec doesn't life up to real 
> runtime scenarios/requirements. I'm not sure this is the case, though I 
> won't argue that it is desirable to exploit the full functionality of 
> Equinox.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I  question that the majority of bundles 
> need to use non spec compliant features in order to be usable in real 
> runtime scenarios.
>
> Markus