[fedora-java] swt-mozilla, swt-pi missing in libswt3-gtk2 >= 3.1.0_fc-0.M6

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Wed Apr 27 09:59:25 UTC 2005


Billy Biggs writes:
 > Andrew Overholt (overholt at redhat.com):
 > 
 > > * Robin Green <greenrd at 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?

Andrew.




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