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

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

Vladimir Sitnikov created XALANJ-2635:
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             Summary: Remove JLex.jar from the source repository
                 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


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.

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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