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Re: Use space as path separator for Manifest Class-Path attributes
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:23:45 +0000
- Subject: Re: Use space as path separator for Manifest Class-Path attributes
- References: <1108498362.1215.43.camel@localhost>
Mark Wielaard writes:
> Hi,
>
> While merging and testing URLClassLoader in GNU Classpath I noticed that
> all all MANIFEST.MF files I could find use a space " " as path
> separator. This is also what the JCLv1 supplement says
> should be used.
>
> 2005-02-15 Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
>
> * java/net/URLClassLoader.java (JarURLLoader.JarURLLoader): Just use
> space for parsing CLASS_PATH attribute.
>
> This makes gij -jar work for jar files that contain a CLASS_PATH
> attribute with more then one element.
>
> OK to commit?
It seems quite perverse not to allow "path.separator" as a separator
as well. Are you sure about this?
Andrew.