Re: [sumo-devel] Removing jars from the sumo src distribution

[Michael B. <beh...@us...>]

Am 02.06.2014 20:50, schrieb Mario Krumnow:
> the idea to remove all unnecessary binaries from the debian src packages
> is good. The most usual way to use java libraries in your own project is
> to add the jar-file to the project classpath variable.
> So when you remove it from the bin directory it will get even harder to
> use the library.

I do not intend to remove them just from bin. The sumo-src zip will
contain no jars at all and the sumo-all zip (as well as the windows
installer and binary zip) will contain them in bin as well as in
tools/contributed/... It would be nice if someone could check the
nightly builds on Friday
http://sumo-sim.org/userdoc/Downloads.html#Nightly_Snapshots
whether they contain everything as expected (not immediately because I
already noticed some things are missing) and whether the jars fit your
expectations.

> Do you think it's a good idea to have a small install
> script which looks for the "JAR" executable on the target machine and if
> there is one it can build the jar using the source files and copy it to
> the sumo bin directory?

This would need compiler infrastructure on the target machine which we
cannot assume (for TraCI developers we probably can, but for
TrafficModeler users certainly not) and it is not necessary since the
users which need the jars can download the big sumo-all and all the
others find out how to build themselves easily (I added make targets for
traci4j, traas and trafficmodeler).

Best regards,
Michael