Christoph Rueger

@stbischof I squashed all commits as discussed in the call and also rebased on master

Thanks @stbischof for merging and all the support from everybody @timothyjward @laeubi On that note: as mentioned in the call and for people coming here: In bnd 7.2.0 there is...

> we should change the default for `@Export` annotation to _not_ reeeport, the default is "let the tooling decide" Are you referring to [this](https://docs.osgi.org/specification/osgi.core/8.0.0/framework.api.html#org.osgi.annotation.bundle.Export.Substitution)?

Small update: I prepared a prototype of a feature for bndtools which can output a list of bundles in a repo which have substitution packages (self-imports). This could help to...

Interesting chat transcript with a great analysis by @laeubi *Christoph R.* Looking at https://github.com/eclipse-jdtls/eclipse.jdt.ls/issues/3236#issuecomment-2276399714 > The problem, as you've noted, is that both gson bundles import just "`com.google.gson.annotations`" (implied >=...

Another blog post which covers exports/imports: https://blog.osgi.org/2007/04/importance-of-exporting-nd-importing.html

Current status: - I can launch bndtools Eclipse instance based on Eclipse 4.35 2025-03 - Test fails I develop this PR re-based on https://github.com/bndtools/bnd/pull/6536 (for Eclipse 4.34 2024-12) to find...

> Why not add an append method that takes a nice option? This will create an attribute in the manifest with newlines. Which is as far as I know allowed...

Current status: - I can launch the bnd eclipse instance with Eclipse 4.34 2024-12 - but still tests failing... mainly because changed dependencies e.g. which were part of of Eclipse...

@kriegfrj You seem to be very familiar with all the JUnit Testcases stuff in bnd / bndtools. Bndtools can be started with the Eclipse 2024-12 just fine, but I cannot...