What is the purpose of "mx archive"?

[Jaroslav Tulach]

Where does it copies the JAR? Could NetBeans build script create the JAR
directly at the right location?

2015-03-13 11:13 GMT+01:00 Gilles Duboscq <gilwooden at gmail.com>:

> 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
>>
>