Re: [Jmol-developers] signing jar files

[Jonathan G. <gu...@uw...>]

I see no problem with dropping the signing of the application, unless some versions of the JavaVM will not run unsigned jars.


Jonathan

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I have not been signing the Jmol.jar file for some time now. No one has complained. How do others feel about my continuing to do that? I know it was important for the applet, but we are not distributing the Java applet anymore. So can we be done with signing? This has been an expense of about $250 for me each year for the past many years.

Bob

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