What is the purpose of "mx archive"?

[Gilles Duboscq]

Hi,

mx archive takes care of creating the jar. There are also some listeners on
well-known archives that will updates some copies of the jars.

 – Gilles

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:09 AM Jaroslav Tulach <jaroslav.tulach at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi.
> All the build.xml files generated for NetBeans have:
>
> <exec executable="/usr/bin/python2.7">
>             <env key="JAVA_HOME" value="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle"/>
>             <arg value="/home/jarda/NetBeansProjects/graal/mxtool/mx.py"/>
>             <arg value="archive"/>
>             <arg value="@GRAAL"/>
> </exec>
>
> what actually that step does? I would assume it copies the generated JAR
> somewhere, but I am new to python so I feel safer to ask than to read the
> code.
>
> Thanks for your patience.
> -jt
>