Re: [PATCH] Improve ant-build-system.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> our ant-build-system currently throws away the jar manifest, because it
> was difficult to control its timestamp.  Without a manifest many jars
> cannot be used, though.  Oops!
>
> The manifest and the directory it is in always get the current time,
> which is very annoying.  Since controlling the timestamp is not possible
> with “jar”, this patch repacks the jar archive with “zip”.  The only
> thing we need to take care of is to ensure that the manifest file
> appears first.
>
> With these changes the jars actually work properly.
>
> Thanks to Roel for reporting these issues to me privately and assisting
> in debugging all of this!

I pushed these commits as 9941e0812eca a couple of hours ago.

~~ Ricardo