Improve Java Cask with SDK Docs and JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files

[mxsb]

It would be cool if the Java Cask can be enhanced a bit, so that one can install the SDK docs and/or the JCE libs with the Java installation. @indrajitr did something like this in his personal Java SDK formula for Homebrew (see https://github.com/indrajitr/homebrew-personal/blob/master/Formula/java-sdk.rb).

Maybe you have a look at this improvement :) /cc @indrajitr

P.S.
Would be cool to have this feature in java6 and java7 available too...

[rolandwalker]

Hi!

Thanks for the suggestion. That would be a nice feature, but we don't have that ability, because we can only specify a single URL per Cask.

The way this would be done currently would be to create a separate Cask for the SDK docs, which would be a welcome addition.

There is a plan to add dependencies, in which case a meta-Cask could be constructed for both the docs and the JDK.

[indrajitr]

Thanks @rolandwalker! Something like Resource block would be great.
For lack of anything similar, I had been trying to go back to the old ways (indrajitr/homebrew-personal@a7fc671) of doing it (via sub-formula).

But I don't see any other cask using this technique and am not even sure if that's the blessed of of doing it at the moment.

[copumpkin]

I'd like this too, for what it's worth