Inactive OSGi manifest headers

[jglick]

jna-3.4.0.jar's manifest contains various OSGi-related attributes such as Bundle-SymbolicName. However these are all within the section named com/sun/jna/, whereas OSGi only interprets attributes in the main section of the manifest. (*) So as far as I know none of these do anything at all. Intentional or mistake?

(*) As opposed to Specification-Version and the like which are defined by the JAR specification and are supposed to be in a named section. Hardly anything pays attention to these attributes, though java.lang.Package can be used to introspect them.

[twall]

On May 2, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Jesse Glick wrote:

jna-3.4.0.jar's manifest contains various OSGi-related attributes such as Bundle-SymbolicName. However these are all within the section named com/sun/jna/, whereas OSGi only interprets attributes in the main section of the manifest. (*) So as far as I know none of these do anything at all. Intentional or mistake?

Simply a mistake. I don't recall where the com/sun/jna section even came from in the first place.

(*) As opposed to Specification-Version and the like which are defined by the JAR specification and are supposed to be in a named section. Hardly anything pays attention to these attributes, though java.lang.Package can be used to introspect them.

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[jglick]

Well the section is supposed to be there, as I said, for old-style JAR versioning attributes. It is just the placement of OSGi attributes in it that is wrong.

I can make this into a pull request if you would like, though it should be pretty trivial: just move the OSGi-related attributes outside of <section>.

[twall]

I'll see if I can tweak it today sometime.

On May 2, 2012, at 7:29 PM, Jesse Glick wrote:

Well the section is supposed to be there, as I said, for old-style JAR versioning attributes. It is just the placement of OSGi attributes in it that is wrong.

I can make this into a pull request if you would like, though it should be pretty trivial: just move the OSGi-related attributes outside of <section>.

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[jglick]

I guess a duplicate of issue #63.