Re: Add OSGi metadata to the java binding

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Laurent Bigonville <bigon_at_debian.org> wrote:

> Could you please considere adding OSGi information to the java binding.
>
> The request for these metadata to be added has been done in the debian
> BTS[0] and a patch has also been proposed.
>
> These meta informations seems to be required to be able to built
> eclipse completely from the source.

I maintain Subclipse and contribute to the maintenance of JavaHL in
Subversion. I do not really have any objections to the concept but it
would be helpful to have a patch created as a patch to Subversion
itself and the trunk version. It looks like the patch in the link is
to the Debian-specific packaging (and for an older version of SVN).

The link also says this:

"This jar is a dependency of eclipse-subclipse package. Attached patch
adds the needed metadata."

I have no idea what Debian might be doing in its own packaging but in
Subclipse itself this is not true. Subclipse does not use the
svn-javahl.jar file from Subversion. The JavaHL API is wrapped in an
Eclipse plugin that Subclipse itself provides and this plugin of
course has all of the OSGI information included since it is a plugin.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/