Le 15 juil. 2014 à 18:16, Boris Brodski <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Hello Nicolas, > > > thank you for the quick reply. I use your suggestion already, but specifying > the version is some kind nasty, especially if you have many such optional > dependencies. > > Is there really absolutely no possibility to just activate a configuration of > a bundle, like > > <dependency org="bundle" name="org.eclipse.jdt"> <!-- No version here --> > <conf name="use_xyz"/> > </dependency> > > This would be completely enough for me! Yes you can, just like a normal ivy file: <dependency org="bundle" name="org.eclipse.jdt" conf="default->use_xyz" /> But this "use_xyz" configuration will be the one of org.eclipse.jdt, not one of its dependency. Nicolas > > > Cheers, > Boris > > > On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 3:43 PM, Nicolas Lalevée > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Le 15 juil. 2014 à 11:18, Boris Brodski <[email protected]> a > écrit : > >> Hello, >> >> >> I posted a question about selecting optional dependencies of OSGI-bundle on >> Stackoverflow: >> >> ant - Selecting optional dependencies of OSGi-bundles with Ivy - Stack >> Overflow >> >> >> >> ant - Selecting optional dependencies of OSGi-bundles with Ivy - Stack >> Overflow >> I use Ivy to resolve OSGi bundles, like org.eclipse.jdt: <dependencies> >> <dependency org="bundle" name="org.eclipse.jdt" rev="x.y.z"/> >> </dependencies> >> View on stackoverflow.com Preview by Yahoo >> >> >> Even issuing a bounty of +150 didn't helped... No answers, no comments. (The >> bounty expired within 24 hours.) >> >> I going to repost my question here hoping to get an answer and also hoping >> to give away +150 reputation on StackOverflow. >> >> >> >> I use Ivy to resolve OSGi bundles, like org.eclipse.jdt: >> <dependencies><dependencyorg="bundle"name="org.eclipse.jdt"rev="x.y.z"/></dependencies> >> It works fine and gives me all mandatory dependencies. >> My question is, how can I select some (not all) optional dependencies of >> transitive bundles? >> I can: >> * Select optional dependencies of org.eclipse.jdt by activating use_xxx >> configuration >> * Select all optional dependencies using transitive-optional >> configuration >> What I actually need is a possibility to globally activate a configuration >> use_yyy. Globally means (applying to all transitive dependencies): >> * If a module doesn't have this configuration, do nothing >> * If a module does have this configuration, activate it > > Only the first solution you suggest is possible. > > But if in your use case you need an optional dependency to be fetched, then > it is actually required for you. So in your ivy.xml, put an extra line about > the dependency you require. > The non ideal point here is about choosing the right version of your > dependency. With a pure OSGi resolver, you just declare a dependency on a > bundle symbolic name, OSGi will figure out the version which can match while > looking up the optional dependencies. Ivy cannot do that, there is no notion > of optionality, either the configuration is in the dependency graph, either > it's not. So you'll have to put a version to the extra dependency. > > Nicolas > > >> >> >> Thank you very much for help! >> >> >> Kind regards, >> Boris Brodski
