Re: Why JAR file for source package?

Trevor Harmon <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:37:21 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.beanshell.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sep 24, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Patrick Niemeyer wrote:

>> 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.
>
> This is true and it really shouldn't matter, however I'll make a  
> note to rename the source dist later just to avoid confusion.

Thanks. In the meantime, do you think you could go ahead make the  
change on the website? That way I could release the Fink package for  
BeanShell without waiting for the next release.

Trevor



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