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email@hidden wrote:
It would make a lot more sense to me if a compelling double-clickable jar
offered to turn itself into a bona fide app-bundle, and then set 1.5* only
on itself. This isn't as complex as it might seem, and once you make the
program that does it, it's widely reusable. A moderately capable
programmer should be able to do it in a single rainy weekend.
Sun's Java 6 source distributions come as a little Java executable-JAR
installer that contains all the files in a file in the JAR and extracts
them. i'm surprised no-one's written something like this, that knows
about GNOME and Win32 and Mac OS.
i keep meaning to get around to it myself, but there are always other
things to do first.
One simple strategy: exec() /bin/sh, and feed parameterized lines to its
stdin from a script kept as a jar-resource. A few mkdir's, cp's, chmod's,
and Voila, a bedraggled shipwrecked wench in a strange land becomes a
respected courtly gentleman.
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