Re[2]: Bundle-Classpath and Bnd

[Peter Kriens <Pe...@aQute.biz>]

Well, it does not make life difficult for bnd, the check is easily
ignored. However, several times in my life I spent time debugging
only to find the error was a spelling error in the Bundle-Classpath.

So I prefer to be strict ... it is only a warning.

Kind regards,

     Peter Kriens


RSH> John E. Conlon wrote:
>> Ran across a case where a project bundle was using a Bundle-Classpath
>> entry with the /target/classes/ value in it's manifest even though it
>> had no such path in the bundle.  As expected Bnd flagged this as an
>> error.  
>>
>> Over at the spring-osgi maillist someone mentioned this practice as a
>> way to get their bundle working in an equinox environment. Don't
>> understand this statement really - Although I run eclipse I don't have
>> much experience with Equinox.
>>
>> Is fudging the behavior of Bundle-Classpath in this manner okay or is
>> this verboten?

RSH> Yes, they are using this trick to get their bundles to work correctly as
RSH> PDE projects (they are working with maven that puts classes in 
RSH> target/classes, but PDE doesn't expect them there, so they can add this
RSH> to the bundle class path to get PDE to look in the right place...or 
RSH> something like that).

RSH> The spec says that missing class path entries should be ignored, so this
RSH> is ok I guess, but it does make life difficult for BND.

->> richard


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