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For OSGi R4.3 the RFC 154 is introducing meta-data for specifying generic capabilities and requirements. See bug323427 and bug323964 We should add support to p2 to support these new types of constraints in OSGi.
Bug360659 is a real-world usecase of things gone wrong because of missing metadata.
Isn't the p2 metadata model powerful enough to represent OSGi generic capabilities? AFAIK, this is just a matter of publishing the new manifest headers, and this is tracked as bug 313553. Bug 360659 is an orthogonal problem AFAIK: p2 doesn't support mandatory attributes, and these could be in fact be difficult to encode with the current metadata model. Proposing to close as duplicate of bug 313553.
(In reply to comment #2) > Isn't the p2 metadata model powerful enough to represent OSGi generic > capabilities? AFAIK, this is just a matter of publishing the new manifest > headers, and this is tracked as bug 313553. Yes, I think this should be possible. > > Bug 360659 is an orthogonal problem AFAIK: p2 doesn't support mandatory > attributes, and these could be in fact be difficult to encode with the > current metadata model. I agree. > > Proposing to close as duplicate of bug 313553. OK with me. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 313553 ***