On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Amit Manjhi <[email protected]> wrote:
> emma.jar includes our modifications to emma. That is why redist was chosen > instead of lib. > The version is included in the name of zip file: emma-2.0.5312-src.zip When > the zip file is expanded, it just includes 'emma.jar' with no version > number. So, it made sense to make emma with our patch available under the > same name. > The problem is, if we someday get a new source version of Emma (whether it does or doesn't need patches), we can't simply upgrade the existing emma.jar... that would break old builds. Had we named it emma-2.0.5312-patched.jar, then we'd just introduce a new sibling with a higher version. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
