Re: [p2-dev] OSGi spec vs P2

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

- Initial provisioning is used to initialize an OSGi framework with an install agent. You are free to use an initial provisioning implementation to initialize a framework with the p2 agent.
- Deployment admin has a few limitations that the Eclipse community simply could not live with. One being the inability to share bundles between deployment packages.
- Bundle repositories are not an official specification from OSGi at this time. There is a proposed spec that has been out for a while. But p2 is extensible and you able to extend p2 to connect to a repository of your choice. I think some investigation had been done by the community to connect with an OBR repository. I'm not sure what the status of that effort is.

Tom



"Jeffrey Ricker" ---02/20/2009 03:11:48 PM---I am confused. Eclipse is built on OSGi. OSGi provides specifications for

From:	"Jeffrey Ricker" <ricker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:	p2-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:	02/20/2009 03:11 PM
Subject:	[p2-dev] OSGi spec vs P2

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I am confused. Eclipse is built on OSGi. OSGi provides specifications for
initial provisioning, deployment admin and bundle repositories.  I see none of
these specifications supported or used in P2. Why is that?


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