Re: [equinox-dev] launchers

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Right.  Deleting would be harsh.  Depending on the configuration in which the framework is being run, that launcher may or may not be used.  For example, in the Eclipse context, it is not needed.  Its inclusion in the distribution opens alternate entry points which may not be desirable.   The proposal here is to break it out into its own source folder and jar which may or may not be present.  Eclipse would build without it, others would include it.  Having a separate source folder simplifies the implementation of this setup.

Similarly, the classes in org.eclipse.osgi.framework.console (in the framework core project) appear to be optional.  They are not referenced from anywhere other than the console implementation itself.  Since it is not an integral part of the core, I suggest that it be broken out into its own source folder and so can be optionally included in a build.

Jeff

Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> 09/25/2003 07:01 PM

To:        Jeff McAffer/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA         cc:        equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx, equinox-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx         Subject:        Re: [equinox-dev] launchers

We use the Launcher for starting the standard (non equinox) OSGi framework.
I think that this class should be included in the osgi core.

Thomas Watson



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Is anyone using or.eclipse.osgi.framework.launcher.EclipseLauncher?  I
don't think it would even work so would like to remove it.

Simiarly, is the Launcher class (same package) used?  We could also remove
that (or move it to an examples location are so it is not in the jar we
ship.

Jeff