RE: [ jEdit-devel ] Re: [ jEdit-users ] macro management

[John G. <jge...@ny...>]

> the one thing that is a little weird about option 1 is what to do with
> external JAR files. should they be included in the source-only download?
> if not, people who download only source from the web site will not be
> able to compile without either downloading the binary package as well,
> or hunting down the external JARs for oneself.
>

I suggest you make the third-party jar part of both downloads unless the
other jar's license has a requirement that source code be made available
with any redistribution.  In that case the plugin author should make the
source code available to you in a form that the plugin's makefile can
handle.

John