> From: Aaron M. Renn
>
> Moses DeJong wrote:
> > I am also working on a jar replacement program for the Kaffe project. My
> > version is about 90% done and does some of the new 1.2 style jar stuff
> > (like the -C argument to change dirs). The jar update and creation of
> > uncompressed archives is till broken but it is "very close" to working.
> > Would you like to work together on the jar replacement program? That
> > way the same jar code could be used in the classpath and Kaffe projects.
>
> Hmm. If you're 90% done, it doesn't look like you need any help!
> Your free
> version is probably good enough. I'm not sure that we need to distribute
> tools as part of Classpath anyway. I was thinking that there might be a
> package called something like "GNU javautils" that contained these
> miscellaneous utilities, though Paul wasn't so enthusiastic about
> the idea.
> Each one could be distributed separately for now. Things like jar should
> definitely be easily usable with Kaffe without having to download
> and build
> our class libraries.
>
I agree with splitting it eventually ... there should be an entire "GNU
Java" distribution that packages a GPL'd VM and Classpath together with a
little more guarantee of it working. That seems like the appropriate place
to put the tools.
Until that happens, though, I see no trouble with leaving the tools in
Classpath since we already have an existing project set up and there's
really no point in incurring the setup overhead (time/energy taken away from
Classpath) until we are at ready to create such a package.
--John
