Re: Need help from Java-developers

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:

>>       o How to make the maven-build-system to never ever include other
>>         jar? Perhaps we need to post-process the generated jars.
>
> Speaking of JAR files, shouldn't we try to avoid them entirely?  My
> understanding is that they are compressed files, which means the Guix
> daemon won't be able to scan them for references.  I don't know if it's
> easy to use Maven to build a project without putting the build output
> into a JAR file, though.

We are already using Jar files.  They are generated by the
ant-build-system.  I don’t think there’s any way around using them,
because that’s the format everybody uses.  You just add a jar to the
CLASSPATH to let java find it.

The format is like Zip, but with an additional manifest.

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Ricardo

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