Which approach do you use for maintaining your manifest?

I’ve recently been going over the feature wishlist for Osmorc and I found quite some items regarding support for a “Manifest First” style of developing applications. From my experience it becomes increasingly difficult and complex to maintain a growing set of OSGi manifests in bigger projects by hand. And with tools such as BND or Bundlor available, I have a hard time in understanding why anyone would want to manually manage manifests.

Then again, these feature requests exist and they exist for a reason. To shed some light on these reasons I decided to put up a small survey about “Manifest First” vs. “Code First” and just ask for your feedback. It’s only four questions and it would really help me a lot in deciding which path to go with Osmorc in the future and spend the limited development time on the most important features.

So please take the survey and help improving Osmorc!