Shibboleth Developers

[Mark Allen Earnest <>]

Scott Cantor wrote:
>>I'd like to revisit this issue, which turns out to be significant
>>after all.  Property ext.name is used for both directory names and the
>>name of the jar file.  This is not good since you want the directory
>>names to change between versions whereas the jar file name should
>>remain the same.
> 
> 
> Why? Jar files should contain the version. The ones that don't drive me
> nuts. Java is broken fundamentally in terms of versioning libraries, but
> this makes it worse.
> 
> 
>>ext.name=gridshib-idp-0.3.1
>>
>>Good for directory names, bad for the jar file (for obvious reasons).
> 
> 
> You'll have to explain those "obvious" reasons. I'd say it's the correct
> name.
> 
> -- Scott

Incidentally, putting version numbers on the jarfile is what I have been
doing with the Lionshare protocol handler extension.

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Mark Allen Earnest

Lead Systems Programmer
Emerging Technologies
The Pennsylvania State University

KB3LYB

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