[jsword-devel] Usability testing ...

[DM Smith]

My vote: Let's leave it as is.
I bring it up because we have other 3rd party jars that have Manifest.mf 
and we may experience the problem again with a new jar. This will serve 
as a place holder in our minds (maybe :) for an alternative solution.

Joe Walker wrote:

>Thanks for the links. I guess they must have been tearing their hair
>out about it!
>
>So do you think it is worth us editing the jar file?
>I can't help thinking that either way is a hack and so long as it
>comes into the category "ugly but self contained", I'm tempted to
>leave it as it is because it works and the alternative doesn't have
>any tangible advatages.
>Unless I'm missing something.
>
>Joe.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>
>Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:51:53 -0400
>Subject: Re: [jsword-devel] Usability testing ...
>To: Java SWORD Developers Mailing List <jsword-devel at crosswire.org>
>
> In the BugParade there are bug reports for the problem:
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4739089
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4785851
> 
> tar.jar has a Manifest.mf
> 
> Also, this is a good forum discussion of the problem:
> http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=38&thread=275890
> 
> You may need to join in order to see these.
>
>
> 
> Mark Goodwin wrote:
> 
> Fantastic. I may try it with my 'old' mac later on... On Fri, 27 Aug
>2004 01:16:57 -0000, Don Parris <evangelinux at matheteuo.org> wrote:
> I did manage to get the IBM JWS 1.4.0 to dl/install Bible Desktop.
>Good job, gang! Don ---------- Original Message ------------- Subject:
>Re: [jsword-devel] Usability testing ... Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004
>15:01:58 -0400 From: Don Parris <evangelinux at matheteuo.org> To: Joe
>Walker <joseph.walker at gmail.com>, Java SWORD Developers Mailing List
><jsword-devel at crosswire.org> Joe Walker wrote:
> I'm fairly sure this will be because you are using JDK 1.4.1. I think
>JDK 1.4.2 will fix this problem - I suppose your only need to download
>the JRE. I just tried to update the webstart config files to specify
>1.4.2 or greater but you can't go to that depth in the "version"
>attribute. I've added a note to the download page. Joe <snip> I got it
>this morning at home. IBM's JWS claims it has no updates available,
>but the JWS at home did the trick. The search function works as
>expected - much better! :) That's the way we users like it! Gotta run,
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