ITP TagSoup - library or application.

[Paul Cager <paul-debian@home.paulcager.org>]

Hi,

I am attempting to package[1] TagSoup[2] and have a question. TagSoup is 
 primarily a library JAR, but it _does_ have a main method and can be 
used as a standalone program. My question is: should I package it as a 
library Jar, or as a library Jar + application?

a)     From the author's documentation, I think the "normal" case is to 
use the Jar as a library from within another program; running it 
directly as a command seems to be a less-important use.

b)     The author's documentation describes starting it as a program by 
using "java -jar tagsoup.jar".

c)     The author has supplied a tagsoup(1) manpage, but again this uses 
the "java -jar" syntax.

All of this suggests to me that I should simply install the Jar, and not 
create a "/usr/bin/tagsoup" script; is this right?

Thanks,
Paul

[1]   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359170
[2]   http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/