* Andrew Haley <aph(a)redhat.com> [2005-04-27 06:03]:
Billy Biggs writes:
> Andrew Overholt (overholt(a)redhat.com):
>
> > * Robin Green <greenrd(a)presidium.org> [2005-04-26 17:50]:
> > > Is this (see Subject) intentional?
> >
> > I'm pretty sure things changed upstream in M6. Maybe Billy can shed
> > some light on this?
>
> The SWT plugin was changed to the new plugins-as-jar format, which
> means that as a plugin we're just one .jar file which includes the
> .class and .so files. I think this also changed for the SWT only
> download so that we're just one .jar file now, which makes much more
> sense.
I'm a little mystified about how this might work. Shared libraries
are memory mapped files, so they're little use inside a .jar file. I
guess the .so is put somewhere at installation?
Yes. See, for example,
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=90535
Andrew