Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Is it acceptable to have two com.google.c

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Willink  wrote on 12/16/2011 08:39:27 AM:
> Does no-one have a view on whether provision of the 
> com.google.common.collect package by two distinct Orbit bundles is
> acceptable?

Purely from an OSGi point of view it's perfectly fine
for multiple bundles to export the same package. I'm sure we have plenty
of other cases of this in the release train. There are even cases where
there are multiple copies of the same bundle (with different versions).
I don't know anything about the specific details of this package - does
it causes problems for an application if they get wired to the wrong one?
I.e., are the two packages interchangeable from the perspective of a consumer?


John