Equinox Minutes - 20080205

Call-in Information

get adaptor doesn't return anything if the bundle hasn't been activated yet
one recommendation is to have a flag for people who provide factories to force activation
if true, then getAdaptor will activate. (behave the same as loadAdaptor
bug number is 82973
similar to one in the extension registry about activation

some people recommend exporting and importing all packages
Apache is doing it and it is listed as a best practice
if you specify both, then the framework chooses you as only one... either importer or exporter
breaks required bundle clients
tom has opened a bug against OSGi
equinox bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=217724

Install area has always been where we find Eclipse, not where the framework is
used to default to where the exe is
assumptions were made about the shape of things on disk
if launcher jar is in a folder called plug-ins, then install area is the parents of the plug-ins folder
this works ok if you are self-contained
p2 allows users to have a bundle pool which is separate from your install
path magic doesn't work anymore
people have made assumptions
we need a new property which describes where the executable is located
how useful is the osgi.install property?
should we deprecate this and create a new one which represents the location of the launcher?
Tom to work with Pascal on a proposal to describe these locations
2 problem areas are: osgi.install.area and Platform#getInstallLocation