On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, David Berry wrote:
> It's not just applications. People may want an individual class. As I say,
that's a bit extreme. As far as I recall the software store has
never catered for people who want, say, astPcdMap but nothing else.
> my specific concern is how people who have a casual interest in trying
> out AST within their own Java applications can get the required files. If
> it's not easy and quick, they won't bother. All they want is JNIAST and
> its dependencies.
I'd say the best way forward is for package maintainers to write
ant targets to produce standalone jar files if such things make
sense for the package in question. These would not be used for
normal operation, but could be lifted out by people who wanted a
standalone copy. I suppose these should have a standard name -
<package>-standalone.jar in the package built lib directory?
Note though that for many cases these won't be true
standalone jar files in the sense that's normally meant by that
since they rely on native shared libraries (JNIAST and maybe JNIHDS).
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