Update MANIFEST to make Ivy runnable with java -jar
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Key: IVY-567
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-567
Project: Ivy
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Core
Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha-1
Environment: Development
Reporter: Tjeerd Verhagen
Priority: Trivial
Fix For: 2.0
Update the MANIFEST.MF, in which the (main) key 'Class-Path' can be specified.
The value of this key should hold the path's to the other requered jars. For
Ivy this means, it should reference to the 'commons-cli.jar' (and maybe other /
extra jars in the future).
To make the jar runnable the key 'Main-Class' is needed, which makes it
possible to just 'run the jar', as:
java -jar ivy-core.jar
No additional path to the class 'org.apache.ivy.Main' is needed any more.
WARINIG: Check this patch 'patch_build.xml_add_main_and_path_20070708.txt' the
key 'Class-Path' does (only) work if the created artifact is in it's
build/articaft directory! I didn't check how ivy-core.jar is normally
distributed (where it's dependencies lib is). Probalbly there should be a small
change of the referenced path here.
To read more about these keys, see paragraph 'Main Attributes':
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jar/jar.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Main%20Attributes
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