Travis Crump wrote: > In the latest nightlies(win32 talkback zip(win2k)), when I unjar my jar > files(using Patchmaker), I get warning messages that files are going to > be overwritten(I tell it to overwrite All). Since the files are being > unjared to directories which didn't exist before I started to unjar, > this implies that the same file exists in multiple jar files. My > question is: Is their a good reason for this? I am tempted to file a > bug, but if there is a good reason for it then it wouldn't really be a > bug(since Mozilla behaves normally)... If there is a good reason for > this, does this needlessly increase the footprint size or are files only > loaded into memory once even if they are found in multiple places(though > it would still increase the download size)... Thanks... > > embed.jar, en-US.jar, en-win.jar, and toolkit.jar are the jars that want > to overwrite files, and the files are unjared alphabetically.
Yes; the jar files for all platforms ship on each platform - this is supposed to aid debugging. Patch Maker has logic which tries to work around this by not unjarring the platform jars for the platforms you aren't on, but maybe things have got a bit more complex since I wrote it. Please send me email giving the entire output of a pmu (unjar) command on a fresh install, and tell me what OS you are on. Gerv
