[jdom-interest] jdom.jar file naming convention
Jason Hunter
jhunter at collab.net
Thu Jun 22 16:54:08 PDT 2000
Jon Baer wrote:
>
> I agree, I think I have 5 different versions laying around here,
I tend to agree it should be jdom.jar too. After all, what would we
name JARs people make themselves? I just changed the build.xml file on
my system to reflect this change. I'll check it in unless someone has a
good objection.
(More comments below)
> I recently
> downloaded a friends .jar file (he is doing an open source wap project) and I noticed
> the interesting way he packaged his stuff:
>
> He had a package to deal with versioning and to-do and laid all his info in an xml
> file inside Meta-Inf which seemed interesting, he had:
>
> org.ewapo.internal.Intro
> org.ewapo.internal.Version
> org.ewapo.internal.ToDo
> org.ewapo.internal.Contributors
>
> And inside Meta-Inf he had:
>
> intro.xml
> version.xml
> todo.xml
> contributors.xml
>
> Does this make sense?
We should explore the idea of META-INF in the JAR containing info like
this. At minimum, it should have the version, and maybe a build time
and perhaps even a build person. Need to dig up good docs on how to use
META-INF. (Anyone have a pointer? I'm supposed to be writing my second
edition this afternoon.) Having the info as XML has a certain elegance;
you could use JDOM to read it! :-)
-jh-
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