[jira] [Created] (FELIX-3883) [Framework] Move OS and processor aliases to configuration properties

["Richard S. Hall (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Richard S. Hall created FELIX-3883:
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             Summary: [Framework] Move OS and processor aliases to configuration properties
                 Key: FELIX-3883
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3883
             Project: Felix
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Framework
    Affects Versions: framework-4.2.0
            Reporter: Richard S. Hall
             Fix For: framework-4.4.0


Currently, we hard code our OS and processor aliases for matching native code libraries. This is bad since it requires us to edit source code to add aliases. It would be better if we moved these to configuration properties, something like this:

    felix.native.os.[normalname] = alias1, alias2, etc.
    felix.native.arch.[normalname] = alias1, alias2, etc.

More concretely:

    felix.native.os.win32 = Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista
    felix.native.arch.x86 = i386, i486, i586

We could then use the properties to define as many "normal names" as we want and associate all their known aliases, so at run time all names could be normalized.

We can include a default set of normal names and aliases in default.properties, but allow people to override any of them (or add new normal names/aliases) in config.properties.

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