Re: Why JAR file for source package?

Jar files are zip files. I recall using zip file libraries to peruse the 
contents of a jar file. So you could probably fool Fink by simply 
renaming the .jar file to some zip extension.

Trevor Harmon wrote:

> BeanShell's source package (http://www.beanshell.org/bsh-2.0b4- 
> src.jar) is only available in JAR format. Is there some reason for this?
>
> I'm asking because the JAR package format makes it impossible to  
> install BeanShell using Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/), which  
> only supports TAR, GZIP, and BZIP2. If the source package were in one  
> of these formats, I could write a Fink description file that would  
> make BeanShell more accessible to thousands of Mac users.
>
> Trevor
>
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