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Re[2]: [equinox-dev] OBR2
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Hmmm, that depends on your perspective ... the format is visible for
the programs that access the repo, which is pretty important.
Kind regards,
Peter Kriens
JM> equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/23/2005 09:21:12 AM:
>> Peter Kriens wrote:
>>
>> >It absolutely MUST be possible to generate the metadata from the
>> >manifest.
>>
>> Well, it is not possible given the current state of bundle manifests to
>> generate all repository metadata. For example, there is no way to
>> generate service dependencies.
>>
>> If someone invents a new capability/requirement pair, there will be no
>> way to generate it either.
>>
>> For the standard package/module-related stuff, we can generate them from
>> the manifest.
JM> Right. What I was trying to get at before was that the XML
JM> metadata should really be an implementation detail. What people
JM> supply to the repo is the manifest. The fact that it munges it
JM> into some XML (whatever) representation internally need not be
JM> exposed.
JM> Jeff
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