Sorry for the delay. >>> "Simon" == Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] Simon> The question is basically: Should jar files be treated Simon> as libraries, losing the ability to stuff application Simon> data into them, or should they be treated as Simon> to-be-implemented archives, which can contain anything. Simon> I'd vote for the latter choice, because it doesn't add Simon> to the complexity of _LIBRARIES (which will eventually Simon> be a good thing in light of the _LTLIBRARIES merge), Simon> gives us an important feature (additional members in the Simon> jar) without being an evil hack and also gives us the Simon> archive feature (which isn't too important standalone). Eiter ways, even both together, sound fine to me. The former seems a lot simpler to implement (*), but if you are volunteering to implement the second... (*) I'm assuming _LIBRARIES and _LTLIBRARIES have been merged first. This shouldn't be too hard to do, and actually I'd like to do it, but it's unclear whether I'll have enought time to commit to this before before mid-march. [...] -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
