[equinox-dev] New felix resolver 1.4.0 in equinox framework and custom r

[Christian Schneider <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

the apache karaf community plans to release apache karaf 4.0.0 on friday 
or saturday. There were some very recent changes in felix resolver that 
went into the just released version 1.4.0 and felix framework 5.0.1. As 
the karaf feature service also uses the resolver we would need these 
changes in equinox.

For karaf we do not plan to create a custom release of equinox. So we 
will ship karaf with the current version of equinox but it will not 
completely work this way.

We are also building a commercial product based on apache karaf 4. So 
for this product we plan to create a custom release based on the last 
stable equinox + felix resolver 1.4.0 sources. I am a bit confused about 
the naming of the tags in the git repo and in general which release I 
should build upon.
On http://download.eclipse.org/equinox/ I found the latest release is 
LunuaSR2 which seems to include 
org.eclipse.osgi_3.10.2.v20150203-1939.jar. There is no such tag in git 
though. Inside the jar in the Manifest I found that the tag seems to be 
M20150204-0900.
In the maven repos I also found a 3.10.100 release from the tycho project.

So I got some questions:
- When is the next planned release of the equinox framework that would 
contain the new resolver sources?
- For my custom release which tag of equinox should I base my fork on? 
M20150204-0900?
- I would like to create a suffixed version for my custom release so it 
can be easily distinguished from the original equinox release. I tried 
several variants like 3.10.2-Talend or 3.10.2.1 but all lead to an error 
during the build. So how can I create a suffixed custom version?
- In maven central there are several artifacts for the equinox framework 
(org.eclipse.osgi).  Which of these is the official one from the equinox 
project?

Cheers

Christian

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Christian Schneider
http://www.liquid-reality.de

Open Source Architect
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