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Re: `make install` should install the info files in java


>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:

>> Right now we install fastjar.  However, I don't think we should.
>> We really should only use it when building.

Bryce> Why not? The JDK provides a jar utility, I don't see a reason
Bryce> why we shouldn't, except that it might be nicer to have out own
Bryce> "jar" written in Java which excercises the java.util.jar
Bryce> implementation in libgcj.

My only reason is that I don't want to fix bugs in it, or document, or
do any of the other things we'd have to do if we supported it.

Tom


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