[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published

Wed Jan 12 22:54:12 CET 2011

On mercredi 12 janvier 2011 at 22:41, Renaud MICHEL wrote :
+> Or maybe, if the jar in the external dependency plugin is actually the
+> same  (or compatible) version as the on from the normal package maybe we
+> could make a plugin package only containing the eclipse related files
+> (plugin.properties) and creating a symlink to the system wide jar. But
+> that mean that eclipse plugins, which are now frequently provided as
+> single jar files, would need to be packaged as files and directories
+> like in older eclipse releases.
+
+Looking at fedora's eclipse plugins packages, it seems they are symlinking 
+directly the jars from their system bundle in the eclipse plugins directory, 
+with full package and version as symlink name.
+I thought some eclipse specific files (like plugin.properties) were required 
+inside the jar, but it seems not.
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+