Re: Build and install without compiling java files?

[Andrew Haley]

Grzegorz B. Prokopski writes:
 > On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 14:52, Michael Koch wrote:
 > > Am Donnerstag, 25. November 2004 19:35 schrieb Archie Cobbs:
 > > > Michael Koch wrote:
 > > > >>Assuming that this glibj.zip has the default Configuration.java
 > > > >> and that is acceptable to the builder, why not provide a way to
 > > > >> configure the build so you can just install glibj.zip as
 > > > >> shipped?
 > > > >
 > > > > I think shipping a glibj.zip is not good. This should be removed
 > > > > from source tarball.
 > > >
 > > > Just curious.. why do you say that?
 > > 
 > > I think there is no real need for it. It just bloats the source 
 > > tarball. All sources are included inside to tarball to build it.
 > 
 > I agree.
 > 
 > As you've just said this is a *source* tarball.  A .zip file containing
 > .class files definitely does not count as a source.  Altough this way
 > of distributing is popular in java world, I think it'd be much nicer
 > to simply have separate *binary* distribution of the glibj.zip.

Absolutely right.  Binaries have no place in source tarballs, even for
java.

Andrew.