Equinox/Meeting Minutes/20090922

Attendees

• Andrew Niefer
• DJ Houghton
• John Arthorne
• Simon Kaegi
• Thomas J. Watson

Minutes

• Considering dropping support for Windows 95, 98, ME
  • These platforms don't support Unicode which requires separate ANSI natives
  • This adds complexity to launcher code and increases maintenance cost - each new native needs to have ANSI and Unicode variants
  • SWT still works on these platforms but would quickly run into resource constraints

• OSGi face to face meetings underway this week
  • OSGi R5 spec development underway
  • Discussion of moving to Java 5 but maintaining binary compatibility with R4
  • EEG framework discussion (multiplexing of singletons, etc)
  • Changes to config admin under discussion

• More discussion on how to register services like event admin
  • Could put DS component in a fragment
  • Could have a fragment for case where user doesn't want to use DS
  • Can require user to register components themselves if DS is not present