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Re: Packaging a library, with JNI and javadocs



On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:49:26AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,

Hi

> I am considering packaging jpcsc, the Java interface to the PCSC
> smartcard libraries.  It consists of several parts:
> 
> * a Java OO wrapper
> * a JNI library
> * Javadocs of the API
> 
> Obviously, because of the JNI this is not a arch-independent package. I
> was thinking of packaging it like so:

Well the -java name extension should only (have I written that in policy?) be used
for arch-independent packages. I would recommend an -jni name extension instead.

> libpcsc-java
> libpcsc-java-doc
> 
> Now, I've packaged a few simple programs before but never Java. Are
> there any small packages out there which use JNI I could look at for
> examples?

Not that I know of. You can probably be a good candidate to send me patches
to the java policy. :)

Regards,

// Ola

> Regards,
> Ross
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