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From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Avalon Development"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: .sar install


> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:50, Mircea Toma wrote:
> > I refactored
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.installer.Installer to
avoid
> > the expansion of .sar file at startup.
avalon-demo.sar and ftp-server.sar
> > are working fine, jesktop.sar is starting but it
has some errors at
> > startup. Paul please check it out and let me know
if I can help!
> 
> We still need to extract the .sar at runtime as a
few people will rely on 
> this (ie James). 

Yes, it was next on my list! The 'Installer.download'
method it's there exactly for that.

> 
> I am going to have a hack tonight so I may try to
implement the SAR-INF/ 
> system I talked about not long ago. SO everything
within SAR-INF is kept in 
> jar while everything else is extracted to
file-system. 

Here I agree with Paul, I think the rule is not too
flexible. It's better to let the developer decide what
should be extracted. This would be done by marking the
entry in the manifest for extraction. By default
nothing will be extracted.

> I will keep it backward 
> compatible and just issue a warning if you use the
old form.

Cool!

Mircea

> 
> Sounds good?
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pete
> 
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