Re: match form as a generalization of case

[Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>]

On 01/23/2017 02:12 PM, Damien Mattei wrote:
> thank you Per,
> i will try this as soon as possible, if it is always build for jdk8 it
> could be running because i must keep compatibility (and other people
> are administering the sidonie2.oca.eu server and they want to keep the
> server secure with only well tested package and they do not want to
> have anything to recompile-sic)on the tomcat server with jdk8 (not 7
> or 9), openjdk8 for debian,  and with bigloo that is compiled for
> jdk8.

The binary distribution should work fine on Java 7 (except for the
JLine line editing support). If it doesn't, I made a mistake.

The source distribution is supposed to be buildable on Java 6, as well as
Android.  (It might build on Java 5, but I haven't tested that in a while.)

> Also the pakckaging of kawa seems to have changed from .jar to .zip i
> suppose i can extract it to create a jar file the way i already do it
> with bigloo that provide.zip for the runtime lib, i must do that
> because netbeans (and perheaps tomcat) only accept .jar files and zip
> files are not recognized.I do not understand why switching from jar to
> zip, seems to become general as it is more en more uncountered.

Zip is more commonly used that jar - by definition, since a jar file
is a zip file. Kawa uses a zip file to bundle the kawa.jar file *plus* a bunch of
other stuff: Helper libraries, shell/batch scripts, and documentation.
Just use unzip (or jar xf) to extract the files and use kawa-VERSION/lib/kawa.jar.
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