Re: Module suite distribution and/or per-service activation tokens

On čtvrtek 8. prosince 2016 14:41:01 CET Emilian Bold wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have this plugin (http://nbnotify.com ) that works only on macOS so it has
> 
> OpenIDE-Module-Requires: org.openide.modules.os.MacOSX
> 
> I want to extends this plugin to work on Linux too.
> 
> Now, one solution would be to create a 2nd module with something like
> 
> OpenIDE-Module-Requires: org.openide.modules.os.Linux
> 
> But then I need to distribute 2 modules.
> 
> It would be ideal to be able to distribute a suite in the Plugin Portal so
> I could bundle both modules. As far as I know this is not possible,
> correct? (This is annoying since I cannot reuse code between the two
> modules).

There is:
OpenIDE-Module-Requires: org.openide.modules.os.Unix
which might work for you relatively well.

-jt

> 
> Alternatively it would be nice to conditionally register services based on
> a token. Then I could have a single module which bundles the both operating
> system services.
> 
> Are there other solutions I'm not aware of?
> 
> PS: Crossposting to [email protected] because we have to
> start using it for Platform questions.
> 
> --emi