Re: STOP INCLUDING EXTERNAL JARS IN YOUR JAVA PACKAGES!
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Adam Heath wrote:
> I have noticed that almost ALL packages include external .jars in their
> internal lib directories. This *MUST* stop. Yesterday. Last year.
>
> Lots of 'external' jars are not redistributable. You can't even have them in
> the source package.
>
> I will be filing bugs on all java packages this weekend that do this. I will
> not exclude non-free packages either. This is something that must stop, and
> we must not allow upstreams to do so either.
Well, it's taking me longer than expected to come up with this list. I have
the list of jars, and which pkgs have them(along with the directories).
However, I am finding all upstream locations, and listing the licenses as
well, so it's taking me a bit longer. Additionally, my script doesn't
differentiate between symlinks and real files(it parses Contents), so I need
to investigate packages manually to remove false positives.
I'll probably have it done tomorrow evening.
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