Posted by
Mike Cowlishaw-3 on
URL: http://ibm-netrexx.48.s1.nabble.com/jar-files-etc-tp677967.html
Always a tricky problem -- I once suggested shipping just the .zip
file, and almost got lynched by an AIX guru from down the corridor :-)
The fairly compelling argument she had was that people often want to
take a look at a package without running it, so they don't want any
prerequisite stopping them 'opening' it. In the case of .jar files,
one would have to have Java installed and running before one could
open the NetRexx package.
Version numbers .. the snag with this is that the numbers tend to
appear in URLs. So if you put the NetRexx download URL on your
bookmark list, you'd keep getting the same (old) package, possibly. I
prefer (and it's just a personal taste) to keep the current version of
a package with a readable name, and rename older ones to have the less
readable numbers. NetRexx 1.02, for example, is in nrexx102.zip.
On my own disks, I simply suffix the version number: Foo.nrx.171, for
example.
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Mike Cowlishaw, IBM Fellow, IBM UK Laboratories
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