[jira] [Commented] (XALANJ-2635) Remove JLex.jar from the source repository

["Vladimir Sitnikov (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Vladimir Sitnikov commented on XALANJ-2635:
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[~keshlam@alum.mit.edu] , if you mean "Created-By: 1.2.1 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)", in the manifest, then it means "Compiled with Sun Java version 1.2.1". It does not mean "jlex was created by Sun Microsystems"

> Remove JLex.jar from the source repository
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>
>                 Key: XALANJ-2635
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2635
>             Project: XalanJ2
>          Issue Type: Task
>      Security Level: No security risk; visible to anyone(Ordinary problems in Xalan projects.  Anybody can view the issue.) 
>          Components: XSLTC
>            Reporter: Vladimir Sitnikov
>            Assignee: Gary D. Gregory
>            Priority: Major
>
> https://github.com/apache/xalan-java/tree/master/tools contains JLex.jar which is a binary file, and its provenance is unknown.
> The ASF rules forbid compiled including compiled code to the source repository (see https://lists.apache.org/thread/otx07h6vbjrsqd9r9sqpcpjscvjwtmfc), and in this case, there's no real need to have JLex.jar in the source repository.
> At the same time, the generated {{xalan-java/src/org/apache/xalan/xsltc/compiler/XPathLexer.java}} should be removed from the source control.
> I suggest that JLex.jar should be removed and it should be replaced with something else.
> For instance, the source code of JLex could be added as a separate subfolder, and xalan could compile JLex from sources.
> It looks like the official distribution is not maintained: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java/JLex/



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