David Walluck (david(a)zarb.org):
[...] Being able to rebuild and reproduce things, including jars
even
when they only contain like text files, is still important from my
point of view. Otherwise, you must rely on upstream to provide you
with a binary jar from some unknown location (which may or may not
contain binary files within it). So the issue has to do with
reproducability and reliance, not what the file necessarily contains.
A .jar isn't really any different than a .tar.gz file, both are binary
blobs that contain files. This .jar is the upstream archive. It's like
asking how to recreate gtk+-2.6.7.tar.gz ;) It's always important to
investigate the contents of archives, but I dont think this case is
really anything special beyond that.
Regardless, the CVS URL you posted earlier is the CVS repository for
our homepage (
www.eclipse.org/swt/) so I guess that's the upstream. I
think I was incorrect earlier when I said these translations were
contributed by IBM, seems that they were contributed by users for the
most part.
-Billy