Hello, --- Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > To address the issue Bill just brought up, I refer you to the > > documentation of the Ant <jar> task. Check out the filesetmanifest > > > attribute options: > > > > http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/jar.html > > > > I have not yet tried this relatively new (as of Ant 1.6, since we > > didn't write about it in Java Development with Ant), but it looks > like > > it addresses the concern of repackaging and keeping the manifest > > version information from being lost. > > That's fine if you're using Ant to build, but lots of folks don't. > > Bill Somebody told my wife the other day that she could work as a freelance editor. Editing what, I asked. Editing university student's papers, the person said. It pays alright. People do it, but both my wife and I agree it's completely wrong, so she's not even considering that. Maybe this wasn't as good of an analogy as I had initially thought, but just because people use Makefiles to repackage Jars and do it incorrectly, or in a way that makes them lose provided information, doesn't mean that we have to account for them. In my mind this is similar to supporting broken HTML, when there are clearly defined and well-known standards. Of course, this is only my opinion, and I don't expect everyone to agree - how boring would that be! :) Otis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
