hello Michael,

On Saturday 01 July 2006 20:05, Michael Koch wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:33:10AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 01.07.2006, 09:24 +1000 schrieb Raif S. Naffah:
> > > On Friday 30 June 2006 01:27, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > > > I checked in the Escher-based X peers and added some configury
> > > > for enabling it. To build the X peers you need the most recent
> > > > Escher library, to be found here:
> > > >
> > > > http://kennke.org/~roman/escher-0.3.0.jar
> > > >
> > > > Configure with: --with-escher=/path/to/escher-0.3.0.jar
> > > > --enable-local-sockets
> > >
> > > would it make sense to create a new folder, say "external-jars"
> > > and include the latest escher (and other java-only external
> > > dependencies) jar(s) there.  --with-escher can use that
> > > jar/location by default, otherwise the full path to a
> > > distro's/user's location of that jar can be fed to configure.
> >
> > This makes sense. I am all for it.
> >
> > Mark proposed to put jars that are (optionally) needed for
> > classpath on http://builder.classpath.org/ somewhere. What do
> > others think?
>
> Don't put jars without sources into classpath releases. Otherwise
> Distros will need to alter the upstream tarball and remove this. And
> altering removes the feature that people can easily check if the
> upstream sources used by a distro is really what upstream released.

would including the jar of the sources --e.g. escher-0.3.0.jar and 
escher-0.3.0-src.jar-- address that concern.


cheers;
rsn

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