Re: packaging directory missing in 8.01 source

[Steven Rubin]

At 01:04 PM 12/30/2004, you wrote:
> I tried compiling electric-8.01 source distribution on linux - it runs but
> when I try to build a jar file, ant cannot find some files in the packaging
> directory, specifically AppleJavaExtensions.jar and electric.mf. Can you
> please provide these files or suggest how to change build.xml so it creates
> a jar file?

The AppleJavaExtensions are actually in the jar file, but they appear as 
individual items (not a single jar file).  You will find them in the folder 
"com.apple".  You can also get the original jar file from Apple.

The manifest file is also in the jar file.  It is called 
"META-INF/MANIFEST.MF".

Since the Ant file builds a jar by extracting the .class files from the 
Apple jar file, you can modify the Ant script to use the .class files that 
are already available (i.e. skip the extraction step).

The Ant file that we use (build.xml) is really an internal build that we 
use for packaging.  When building Electric, we use IDEs that simply compile 
all of the .java files and run them (that is, we don't use the Ant 
file).  The main class is "com.sun.electric.Launcher".

   -Steven Rubin