On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:11 PM, thierry henrio <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all, our company produce various and unstandardized assemblies : > tar.bz2, > zip > each assembly has its own layout, and mainly consist in jar files > there is no standardized repository to host jar files > > it is a real pain to make a runnable package, and yet it is required > our customer are puzzled and so am I > > so, I would like to make a package made of bits of tar, zip, jar, text > files > I have no (more) java source to compile > > Following specification could apply > > given > foo-1.1.tar.bz2 containing [foo-core-0.9.jar, foo-foo-1.1.jar] > moo-2.3.zip containing [lib/moo-2.3.jar] > when I package foomoo-2.3.1.zip > then content is [lib-foo/foo-core-0.9.jar, > lib-foo/foo-foo-1.1.jar, lib-moo/moo-2.3.jar] > > I failed to find in documentation whereas this is possible with buildr at > this time You can use the merge method to include the contents of one zip inside another, but there's no support for merging tarballs into zips: http://buildr.apache.org/packaging.html Assaf > > > Do you think buildr should be able to do that ? > If not, do you know of any other library that could implement it ? > If not, would you give some advice for code that could give me hints of > implementation ? > > I hope this post is not totally irrelevant to this list > > Regards, > Thierry >
