On 8/8/01 12:24 PM, "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason van Zyl wrote:
>>
>> Is there a reason why we're not placing the version number in the name of
>> the JAR. I am trying to use a central repository of JARs for building all
>> turbine projects and I know I will eventually run into a case where I need
>> to store different versions of a package in the same directory.
>>
>> I know the version informatin is in the manifest, but you can't store
>> multiple versions of packages in the same directory right now.
>
> IMHO, placing all the jars from disparate projects into a single directory
> produces a mess. Pop quiz: where does optional.jar come from? That was an
> easy one, eh? How about mail.jar? roles.jar? utils.jar? runtime.jar?
> These are real names actually in use.
> A better approach is to organize the jars into directories. The names of
> those directories can contain version information, etc. And separate
> README and LICENSE files...
I'll see if I can make it work, but the idea is that the build will be
transparent so hopefully people won't need to look in the binary
installation directory.
JJAR doesn't currently work like that but it wouldn't take much to change. I
agree that a directory structure would be better, especially if many
projects.
> - Sam Ruby
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