[ASSEMBLY-195] import and export of the same namespace for some testcases -PROPOSAL

[Mike Edwards <mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com>]

Folks,

I propose that ASSEMBLY-195 is Closed
with No Action

ASSEMBLY 195 is concerned about testcase
contributions which both import and export the same namespace.

The claim is made that this behaviour
is not explicitly defined in the Assembly specification and that it could
lead to cyclic dependencies that would
cause an error.

However, I think that the Assembly specification
is very clear about the meaning of import and export statements
in Section 10.2.1 and there is a specific
normative statement - ASM12023 - that indicates that any resolution of
an
artifact through an import statement
must only be a one-deep search and that searches do not recurse through

multiple levels of Contributions.

As a result, cyclic dependencies of
the kind mentioned in this issue are not possible.

The claim that there needs to be a definition
of an import/export pair in the Assembly spec is also unnecessary,
since its meaning is well defined by
ASM12023, with no ambiguity.



Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
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