Re: [Webmacro-devel] Re: [WebMacro-user] ANNOUNCE: WebMacro 1.1b2 is out!

[Eric B. R. <eb...@tc...>]

On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 08:53  AM, Endre St=F8lsvik wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Marc Palmer wrote:
> |
> | > However, THAT isn't too cool. This because I'll probably need to=20=

> _use_
> | the
> | > library, especially program to it. That means that I'll load the
> | > source-jar into the IDE to get parameter naming and Javadoc=20
> integration,
> | > as e.g. CodeGuide from Omnicore.com does (man, I just love that
> | program!).
> | > The OS project Eclipse (from IBM) is also cool and does this.=20
> Which means
> | > that I'd like to have the source in a jar, yes, please!

Apparently I missed the above message.  Could somebody resend it.

> |
> | Source should be in a ZIP, not a jar... in my opinion.
>
> Why? Officially, Java "deprecated" the zip extension in 1.1 or=20
> something.
>
> But Eric: One more major thing: You _got_ to have a directory=20
> prepended!!!
> I nearly expanded the tarball in my /usr/java, but thankfully I did
> actually a "t" first. And I got _scared_, man!

doh!  I'll fix this for sure for the next release.  This was NOT by=20
design.

> And indeed, I'd like the jars to be version-named too. This so that I
> really easily can see which version of some jar I'm using. I always=20
> rename
> the jar, so why can't it just be named such from the beginning? Use
> symlinks on _OS_'es.. ;)

Starting with 1.1b2, you can do the following to get the version number:
    java -jar webmacro.jar


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