Bug 5014 - Generating JARs where they should be ZIPs
Summary: Generating JARs where they should be ZIPs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Releng (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Brian Young CLA
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Reported: 2001-10-16 10:37 EDT by James Moody CLA
Modified: 2001-10-16 13:41 EDT (History)
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Description James Moody CLA 2001-10-16 10:37:17 EDT
I notice that the base install and component installs are available as JAR 
files instead of ZIP files. They aren't actually JARs at all; they don't 
contain class files, and in most cases they actually contain other JAR files. 
Also, you are required to unzip them, which is rarely (if never) required for 
JAR files. To avoid this confusion, I recommend that they be generated as ZIP 
files instead, which should be a simple name change.
Comment 1 Sonia Dimitrov CLA 2001-10-16 13:41:01 EDT
the intent of using jar files was to permit signing of the jars.  However, due 
to legal issues, the drops will be delivered in the same format as those of 
R1.0 from build 0.205 onward.