{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/CompEvol/beast2/issues/309","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/CompEvol/beast2/issues/309/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/CompEvol/beast2/issues/309/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/CompEvol/beast2/issues/309/events","html_url":"https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/issues/309","id":64148295,"number":309,"title":"Launchers should not include complete beast.jar but discover and load","user":{"login":"rbouckaert","id":3612959,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3612959?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbouckaert","html_url":"https://github.com/rbouckaert","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbouckaert/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbouckaert/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbouckaert/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbouckaert/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbouckaert/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbouckaert/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbouckaert/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbouckaert/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbouckaert/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-03-25T01:52:42Z","updated_at":"2015-03-25T02:08:15Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The windows and mac versions are much larger than the linux version because they include a copy of beast.jar in each executable. Keeping the beast.jar separate makes upgrading point releases a breeze: just replace the jar file. \r\n\r\nThere may be an issue on mac when applications are launched from withing a dmg file and beast.jar cannot be found.\r\n\r\nRelated to #144"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/CompEvol/beast2/issues/comments/85784903","html_url":"https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/issues/309#issuecomment-85784903","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/CompEvol/beast2/issues/309","id":85784903,"user":{"login":"tgvaughan","id":512538,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/512538?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tgvaughan","html_url":"https://github.com/tgvaughan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tgvaughan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tgvaughan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tgvaughan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tgvaughan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tgvaughan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tgvaughan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tgvaughan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tgvaughan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tgvaughan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-03-25T02:08:15Z","updated_at":"2015-03-25T02:08:15Z","body":"Maybe we shouldn't even distribute beast.jar with the archives users\ndownload from beast2.org.  The launcher could be responsible for\ndownloading this initially and subsequently checking for updates.  Of\ncourse we'd have to cater to people behind firewalls, although if we stick\nto HTTP this shouldn't be too much of a problem.\n\nOn 25 March 2015 at 14:52, rbouckaert <notifications@github.com> wrote:\n\n> The windows and mac versions are much larger than the linux version\n> because they include a copy of beast.jar in each executable. Keeping the\n> beast.jar separate makes upgrading point releases a breeze: just replace\n> the jar file.\n>\n> There may be an issue on mac when applications are launched from withing a\n> dmg file and beast.jar cannot be found.\n>\n> Related to #144 <https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/issues/144>\n>\n> —\n> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub\n> <https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/issues/309>.\n>\n"}}