Re: Java Resources in GNUmakefile?

[Helge Hess]

On Apr 19, 2007, at 16:27, Nicola Pero wrote:
> It's an excellent idea :-) ... try
>
> MyPackage_PROPERTIES_FILES = abc.properties
>
> in your gnustep-make :-)

Sounds good. But why is it called _PROPERTIES_FILES :-) It works with  
arbitary files, eg in JOPE we use it with templates, eg:
  Main.class|java
  Main.html
  Main.wod
or even
  Main.class|java
  Main.wo/Main.html
  Main.wo/Main.wod
or even
  Main.wo/Main.class|java
  Main.wo/Main.html
  Main.wo/Main.wod
Though the last two would probably require special support anyways.


> The JAR files support would be interesting - let me know if you  
> have suggestions on
> variable names/what to do in practice.

OK, those would be two things:
a) referencing jar files
b) producing jar files

For a) I would suggest that all *.jar files in xyz/Library/Java/ are  
automagically added to the classpath? Not sure what the performance  
implications would be.

Well and b) should be rather easy. Just 'make install' into a  
temporary directory, generate a manifest and compress it with jar  
into the jar file.
I guess jar.make would be an own type (not a 'make jar' like target  
on java-package). But I'm not perfectly sure.

Greets,
  Helge
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