On 18/05/2009, Ceki Gulcu <c...@qos.ch> wrote: > > > sebb wrote: > > > > > It would be useful if the Manifest included the following details: > > > > Implementation-Title: commons-logging > > Implementation-Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation > > Implementation-Vendor-Id: org.apache > > Implementation-Version: 0.0.0-EMPTY > > Specification-Title: commons-logging > > Specification-Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation > > Specification-Version: 0.0.0-EMPTY > > > > These details provide information to the user who decides to open the > manifest file but other than that, since the jar file comes with no > classes, the information cannot be accessed at runtime, e.g. by the > Package class. Can you think of any additional reasons to include the > above details in the manifest file?
To document the jar. It's easy enough to add, and does no harm. AIUI there needs to be a NOTICE file in every distribution and release. Also the N&L files need to be added to the jar. > -- > Ceki Gülcü > Logback: The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for > Java. > http://logback.qos.ch > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
