Re: [pde-build-dev] JNLP, pack200, and nested jars

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Apparently the 'pack.excludes' property do not apply to nested jars. Is 
that per design or should I report a bugzilla on that?

The only option left to me was to actually patch the eclipse.inf in the 
culprit bundle.

- thomas


Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> Does the pack.excludes property apply to jars within other jars? I 
> guess they do and that solves my problem although what I really would 
> like is the ability to set
>
> jarprocessor.exclude.children.pack = true
>
> in the pack.properties. I know that in my case (when generating for 
> JNLP), whenever I encounter a nested jar, it should refrain from 
> packing. It appears this property is never read from the 
> pack.properties. Would it be feasible to change this so that the 
> global properties from 'pack.properties' is added to the 
> 'containingInfs' list that the JarProcessor maintains?
>
> - thomas
>
>
> Andrew Niefer wrote:
> > The pack.properties file also supports a 'pack.excludes' property. 
> >  The value is a comma separated list of jar names to exclude.
> >
> > -Andrew