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Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 15:52:34 -0400
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Tim Ellison wrote:
> [ If you don't know/care about either OSGi manifests or Eclipse, then
> don't worry, you can ignore this note -- just continue as you are. ]
> 
> 
> I'm going through the module manifests and putting in some explicit
> imports to satisfy the requirements of the tests within a module.
> 
> Since this means that a module will now 'import' (depend upon) a package
> only because a test case uses it, I'm marking such imports in the
> manifest as 'optional' -- this means that the same manifest can be used
> in development and in the JARs that we deploy at runtime (which don't
> contain the test code).  The alternative would have been to move test
> code out into a separate module but I'm NOT going there!

That makes sense.

> 
> Similarly, where a module manifest exports a package only to satisfy
> somebody else's test code, it is done with a mandatory attribute to show
> why it is being imported.

:/

What's the downside?  It doesn't matter now, but in the future, should 
we consider having the manifests assembled as part of the build based on 
target?  Talking out of my hat, it sounds like each breaks into two 
parts, a 'manifest base' and 'manifest test' or -ish...

> 
> I'll also commit updates Eclipse metadata (.project and .classpath
> files) for our modules, for those people who want to follow along.

Common custom is to keep that kind of thing out of SVN but I realize 
that as Eclipse is such a bear to set up....  ;)

geir


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