[m-rev.] for review: generate executables in the Java grade as JARs

[Paul Bone]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:35:54PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:18:13PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> > >
> > > compiler/compile_target_code.m:
> > >         Rename the link target type for Java executables.
> > >
> > >         Add a predicate for creating Java "executables": this involves
> > generating
> > >         an archive (as we do for libraries) and then generating the
> > wrapper script
> > >         or batch file.
> >
> > There are a number of overlong lines in this patch.
> > You'll need to check the whole patch.
> >
> 
> Ok, done.
> 
> 
> > The semantics look fine.
> >
> > I think it would also be useful to generate .jar files for libraries.  That
> > can be a later patch that hopefully re-uses some of this work.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean.  We already do generate .jar files for libraries
> and have done so for years.

Okay, I didn't know that.  I was making an assumption.


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Paul Bone