Decide whether to update the Fiji Package Maker, or move away from it

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Downloadable Fiji bundles

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Decide whether to update the Fiji Package Maker, or move away from it #4

Open ctrueden opened 4 years ago

ctrueden commented 4 years ago

Right now, Fiji gets wrapped up by the good old Fiji Package Maker plugin. That plugin hasn't been updated in a long time; in particular, it doesn't know about jars/<platform> folders for platform-specific JARs. We should consider how best to pack up the Fiji bundles going forward:

Update fiji.packaging.Packager to understand jars/<platform> and fix any other shortcomings?
Ditch the use of Fiji_Package_Maker in favor of shell-script-based globs or similar?
Some other way?

ctrueden commented 4 years ago

The platform-specific JARs are packaged correctly now with 3e25372a7608297d7fd4dbfd470658bf1b960f78. But we still need to, in general, decide whether to update the Fiji Package Maker, or retire it. I'd personally favor updating it but also generalizing it to the ImageJ Package Maker, since it fits best in the ImageJ layer.