On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 07:05, Michael Koch wrote: > Am Montag, 17. Januar 2005 07:45 schrieb jewel: > > Welcome back, John. > > > Do all classpath VMs have native code to load jar files? Does it > > make sense to distribute a jar instead? > > The ones the don't have the code to load jars can install classes > instead of glibj.zip. > > A JAR is basically a ZIP. There is no advantage when we call it > glibj.jar. This will probably get only more problems as people might > try to add it to their classpathes because its a JAR.
At some point someone who distributes a binary of glibj might want to use a jar file format to sign the jar and verify the integrity of the classes within it. I don't think this buys you much more than a regular md5sum of the zip file, but that the runtime can perform the verification in a standard way. -- Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]