[icedtea-web] RFC: replace binary launchers with shell scripts

[Omair Majid]

On 02/28/2011 11:34 AM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Omair Majid<omajid at redhat.com>  [2011-02-28 11:16]:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The attached patch replaces the binary launchers with simple shell scripts.
>>
>> It also (I hope) fixes some mistakes in $(DESTDIR) usage.
>>
>> Any thoughts or comments?
>>
>
> What is the motivation for this change?
>

Mainly, just less code. The existing launcher code is over 9000 lines. 
All of that can be removed after applying this patch. As a side effect, 
this will also avoid issues like CVE-2010-4450 [1] in the future.

Cheers,
Omair

[1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/rev/5cb73fdbe246