[ale] Should JAR files go in lib or share?

[Jim Kinney]

Quack!

Use a lib concept. The alternative method is when it's a large application with lib and logics and it goes in share.

On November 3, 2020 1:51:56 PM EST, Chris Fowler via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>I was having a discussion with a developer this morning about my choice
>to put our JAR files in lib and since they are technically libraries
>should be there, but when going after another JAR file I noticed Ubuntu
>uses share. lib.
>
>I noticed that CentOS and Ubuntu have different ideas too.
>
>CentOS places the actual file in lib and a symlink in share.
>
>[DEVEL libxalan-java]$ ls -l /usr/share/java/jna.jar
>lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 Nov  8  2019 /usr/share/java/jna.jar ->
>../../lib/java/jna.jar
>
>Ubuntu puts the jar in share:
>chris at mechonis:~/Downloads$ ls -l /usr/share/java/js.jar
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 20  2017 /usr/share/java/js.jar ->
>js-1.7.7.1.jar
>
>I'm going with lib because the nature of these files aare that they are
>"libarires" that get loaded, executed, and are an API.  They look like
>a libXXXX.so and quack like a libXXXX.so.

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