RES: [postgis-devel] Autoprobing java source files

[strk at refractions.net]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 08:29:34AM -0300, Gustavo Henrique Sberze Ribas wrote:
> > > Now my question is whether this will work under non-posix 
> > environments,
> > > especially the PostGIS/Windows packagers come in my mind. 
> > Can I expect
> > > Windows java developers to have "find" installed?
> 
>  Nope. But nevermind, we don't have "make" either :) .
> 
> 
> >  but on windows in order to getting .jar
> > they have to use MinGW/Msys (used to build postgis and 
> > postgresql...) which
> > contains "find"
> 
>  Nope. Just the SDK from Sun suffices.
> 
>  
>  A JAR file is nothing more than a .zip full of .class files
> organized in directories. If you want to make things easier
> for M$ Windows users you should consider delivering the JAR
> itself (not only the makefile) along with the binary distros.

Of course binary distros should have the .jar prebuilt.

>  Or, if I may abuse your good will, you could deliver an Ant 
> (java version of "make") build.xml. :) 

You're abusing :0
We're having a discussion about this on jts-devel.
I see ant could be invoked by make, but why having another
dependency ?

--strk;

> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Gustavo
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