Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17/04/2002 11:28:14 AM:

> On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 21:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The <jars> project descriptor element seems a bit misplaced given the 
> > current docs. It is supposedly for including jars into other jars - 
what 
> > the?
> 
> It's a vestige of the gump descriptors: it represents the JARs produced
> by a build. But if the project is 'normalized' then maybe it should only
> produce a single JAR. And these are used in gump to produce a path to
> the produced JAR so it's available when building other projects.
> 
> > It does however make sense to have these as things that are included 
into 
> > the dist jar, i.e. a project wants to ship jars that are not 
dependencies 
> > (and who knows what those are), as part of the binary distribution.
> > 
> > Could we repurpose the tag for that functionality?

Ok, I need some stuff placed in the dist dir as part of the 'dist' 
processing. Maybe we could add a dist.basedir property as well, like the 
jarResources.basedir? 

This is for stuff like shell scripts, batch files etc...
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