Thanks to a great bit of sustained work by Marco Schmidt on behalf of
JIU, we now have a working all-Java distiller.  I'm going to do some
more work on it, in particular integrating it into our build process
and providing a Java-callable API, but for the moment you can try it
out.  Download the jar file from

  ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/transient/janssen/plucker-build.jar

in binary mode.  Then invoke it as

  java -jar /SOMEWHERE/plucker-build.jar PLUCKER-ARGS

as in

  java -jar /tmp/plucker-build.jar --home-url http://jiu.sourceforge.net/ ...

Treat this jar file as an alpha release -- I've only run a few test
cases, and I'm sure there are lingering problems lurking in corners...
One bug I can see from here is that it doesn't exit when it's
finished.

This jar file incorporates compiled code from both Plucker (see
www.plkr.org for sources) and JIU (see jiu.sourceforge.net for
sources).

Bill

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