Use space as path separator for Manifest Class-Path attributes
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Tue Feb 15 22:39:00 GMT 2005
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
>> It seems quite perverse not to allow "path.separator" as a separator
>> as well. Are you sure about this?
It does seem odd.
Mark> Yes. All documentation I could find was very explicit about only using
Mark> space as separator.
Thanks for doing the research on this. IMO a comment in the source
explaining this is in order, perhaps with a URL or something.
Mark> Also all jar files I could find that use this
Mark> feature use space exclusively. Besides "path.separator" is different
Mark> depending on the platform used so that would make jars that use that in
Mark> describing the additional class path elements unusable on a platform
Mark> that uses a different "path.separator".
Dalibor once said on irc that he's seen jars with things like
"C:\foo\bar.jar" here -- but of course that is pathological.
Tom
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