Re: [Plplot-devel] Re: [Plplot-cvs] plplot/bindings/java Makefile.am, 1.46, 1.47

[Andrew R. <and...@us...>]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:01:07AM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote:
> On 2005-07-05 09:38+0100 Andrew Ross wrote:
> 
> Well, my feeling is the the jar file was like a tarball rather than a
> library. From this POV, the sun java bug workaround of two java files does
> not appeal to me at all; it would be like distributing plplot as two
> tarballs.
> 
> So I think the choices are down to
> 
> (1) no source in the jar file
> 
> (2) no jar file
> 
> (3) source in the jar file as a redundant file archive convenience for our
> java users but ignore that jar file for all example builds.
> 
> I have argued for java source in the jar file (i.e., #3) since I view the
> jar file analogously to a tarball, but I can see your point of view as well
> that the jar file is similar to a library.  Now I frankly am becoming uneasy
> about anything to do with jar files since we have two very different ideas
> about them, neither one of us has much java experience (me even less than
> you), and we seem to be running into jar file bugs with sun java.  Thus, I
> am now leaning toward solution #2.

A quick check of the Sun .jar files on my system shows that one or two
(but only a few) have a separate src subdirectory where the .java files
are put. This seems to solve the problem. If we are going to include
the source then this is probably the way to do it.

Is that ok with you Alan?

Andrew