> Note: in this patch, I made a mistake. I misunderstood the purpose of the
> extra jar that Stefano created for ant. It is not a set of classes, but
> rather a packaged up distribution. I have a moral objection to naming such
> things jars, so I am thinking of adding back in the version string, and
> changing the task used to be zip instead of jar. Thoughts?
I'm in agreement. Distributions should always be zip'd -- JAR means
that the zip file contains classes that can be loaded by a VM and run --
and that on systems with associations, a double click on the jar looks
for a manifest entry and starts up a Java VM with a specified main
class. Distro's do not fall in this catagory unless it's a self
unpacking beast....
.duncan
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James Davidson duncan@eng.sun.com
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