Bug#136993: binfmt-support: package javawrapper somewhere

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 08:35:14PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> I noticed this very old bug and wondered if it is still relevant.
> Currently there is a jarwrapper package that uses binfmt-support to
> allow jar-files to be executed.

Almost.  It's probably more use to most people than my javawrapper
implementation is, I agree.

When I wrote javawrapper, it was in the early days of Java and it was
still common enough to just build a pile of .class files rather than a
.jar file.  I wrote javawrapper because I was fed up with concocting the
correct syntax to get the Java interpreter to start with a given .class
file.  This still seems as though it could be useful in some situations.

CCing the javatools maintainers; would it be possible to merge some of
the functionality of
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/code/javawrapper/javawrapper-1.0.tar.gz
into jarwrapper?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]