[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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