[jdom-interest] jdom.jar file naming convention

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 3:26 PM -0700 6/22/00, Alex Chaffee wrote:
>I have a request.  In future versions, please name the jar file
>"jdom.jar" and not "jdom-b5.jar".  That way users don't have to change
>their classpaths, and/or rename files, and/or worry about old versions
>laying around.  We can just unzip and go.
>

I prefer having the version number in the JAR name. Rather than 
putting the jar file in my CLASSPATH I just drop it in my jre/lib/ext 
directory. Then the name doesn't matter.

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