[fedora-java] Re: Odd ClassNotFoundException with RSSOwl

[Billy Biggs]

David Walluck (david at zarb.org):

> [...] Being able to rebuild and reproduce things, including jars even
> when they only contain like text files, is still important from my
> point of view. Otherwise, you must rely on upstream to provide you
> with a binary jar from some unknown location (which may or may not
> contain binary files within it). So the issue has to do with
> reproducability and reliance, not what the file necessarily contains.

  A .jar isn't really any different than a .tar.gz file, both are binary
blobs that contain files.  This .jar is the upstream archive.  It's like
asking how to recreate gtk+-2.6.7.tar.gz ;)   It's always important to
investigate the contents of archives, but I dont think this case is
really anything special beyond that.

  Regardless, the CVS URL you posted earlier is the CVS repository for
our homepage (www.eclipse.org/swt/) so I guess that's the upstream.  I
think I was incorrect earlier when I said these translations were
contributed by IBM, seems that they were contributed by users for the
most part.

  -Billy