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.

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