Bug#705565: more detail

[Rogério Brito]

Hi, Daniel and others,

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.com.au> wrote:
> On 30/08/13 05:11, Rogério Brito wrote:
>> Can we have an update of this package? BTW, shouldn't the package provide a
>> wrapper like, say, /usr/bin/closure-compiler, instead of having the user
>> type such a long line?  Or, at least, a README.Debian telling the user how
>> to run the compiler?
>
> It should be a runnable JAR, that means declaring the dependencies and
> main class in the manifest

Nice to know. My knowledge of Java ended in 1999, after I wrote a
compiler for school. Never used it again and have not kept up with the
advances since then.

> Then you can just run the JAR, e.g.
>
> ln -s /usr/share/java/closure-compiler.jar /usr/bin/closure-compiler
>
> and then just run "closure-compiler"

Can this be done for the users? I surely wouldn't expect users to know
this if this were my package...

Thanks for the information,

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