What to show when jar manifest has no version attribute

[sflanigan]

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/TTALE-51

If a jar contains no manifest, or the manifest contains no version attribute, Tattletale currently records the versions as "null".

There are lots of options for dealing with this, including a hash like MD5/SHA, but to replace "null" in the meantime, a timestamp is easily implemented, and fairly understandable for humans. Most people probably understand timestamps better than cryptographic hashes anyway!

[jesper.pedersen]

Not having a MANIFEST.MF in an archive is a TODO item in my book.

So those should be flagged in an action report.

[jesper.pedersen]

This has been implemented - 1.0.Beta2 will have this functionality

[sflanigan]

"jesper.pedersen" wrote:
Not having a MANIFEST.MF in an archive is a TODO item in my book.

So those should be flagged in an action report.

True, but sometimes you're stuck with third-party jars the way they are.