Re: manifest updates - dependencies - cornerstone - excalibur

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:10, Stephen McConnell wrote:
> Sorry Pete but your going to have to give me a bunch more information.
>  There is
> one deployment environment called the JVM which recognizes package
> depedencies.

Wrong - the JVM ignores it.

> We
> have a bunch of jar files with package dependencies that are not
> documented in the
> manifest entries=20

done deliberately. I actually wrote a bunch of ant tasks (see extension t=
asks=20
in ant docs) to do this but after implementing it I found that it was not=
=20
possible without breaking stuff.

> As to other deployment environments - can you please provide the detail=
s
> of the
> specific environment your referring to.

Anything that plans to run in Tomcat 4.x has a high chance of not working=
 if=20
you include extension entries. Bugs in TC

--=20
Cheers,

Peter Donald
Duct tape is like the force.  It has a light side, and a dark side, and
it binds the universe together ...
                -- Carl Zwanzig=20