[fedora-java] swt-mozilla, swt-pi missing in libswt3-gtk2 >= 3.1.0_fc-0.M6
Andrew Overholt
overholt at redhat.com
Wed Apr 27 13:17:52 UTC 2005
* Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> [2005-04-27 06:03]:
> 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?
Yes. See, for example, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=90535
Andrew
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