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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-3700:
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The point is that we'll have one less *binary* file under source
control. Since it's a source code repository, I think we should try to
have as few binary files as possible. The patch basically replaces a
binary file with one line of source code that generates a replacement
for it at build-time. Whether it generates an empty jar or an empty
directory is not important, but the ant command for making a directory
was shorter. :)
> Get rid of tools/java/empty.jar
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> Key: DERBY-3700
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3700
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Build tools
> Reporter: Knut Anders Hatlen
> Assignee: Knut Anders Hatlen
> Priority: Trivial
> Attachments: d3700.diff
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> empty.jar is used to prevent the Java compiler from putting the default Java
> runtime libraries in the boot classpath. An empty directory would also work,
> so we could remove the jar file from the source repository and instead let
> the build scripts create an empty directory for us.
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