Why rename the .jar?

[ryanhamilton]

Hi, Your tool is working great. Thanks.

One question, for linux why do you rename the .jar?

I'm asking as:

1. Keeping it .jar in theory makes it still easily runnable for a windows user that downloads the wrong package.
2. Keeping it .jar, would make it clear to the linux user that it's a java file.

I don't see the benefit to changing the name?

I even tried setting runnableJar = file("app.jar.jar") but it removed both the .jars :)

[fvarrui]

Hi @ryanhamilton!
Some files are renamed with the generic name "app.*" because some tools (like launch4j) don't support filenames with CHK characters ... maybe this not happens on Linux, but it was implemented as a generic behaviour

[fvarrui]

Hi, Your tool is working great. Thanks.

You are welcome 😄