Mallampati, Suresh wrote: > Yup, there were inconsistencies, which were fixed in jdk1.3. Now, there > arent any.
Really? Read the Notes section of the *1.4* documentation of the Jar File Spec in the link Magesh has provided http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/jar/jar.html * Attributes: In all cases for all sections, attributes which are not understood are ignored. Attribute names are case insensitive. Programs which generate manifest and signature files should use the cases shown in this specification however. Attribute names cannot be repeated within a section. That is a pretty clear. It does not distinguish between the main section and the unnamed sections. Sun have chosen to violate this restriction for Class-Path headers. They do not mention that in this spec but in another spec. It is not clear if they intend to relax this restriction for other headers. For other headers it may not make sense to simply concatenate them in the way you can with a Class-Path header. Frankly the specs are a bit of a mess on this point. > Anyways, can you please tell me if these changes will be part of > the next version of Ant, i.e., Ant1.4.2 or something. I am not sure what > 1.5Alpha means, will the next version be 1.5 and such.. There will not be a 1.4.2 release. I expect there to be a 1.5 release but not for a while. It will be subject to a vote by Ant's committers Ant 1.5alpha is the version that is currently the HEAD revision in CVS. It is built nightly and is available for download and use if you want to try out new features such as the one Magesh has mentioned. Please follow the links from the Ant home page. > And though it might not seem important, but you said that this is a special > treatment intended only for Class-Path attribute. Though the other main > section attributes might not be of more length, but wont it be like "not > following the JAR Specification" if other "main section" attributes are not > offered the same treatment.. If you can point out the approriate section of the specification, I think we would be happy to follow it. > > Thanks > -Suresh Conor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
