Empty library archives?

[TobiX]

In the archive directory, some JARs are just empty:

• jffi-i386-FreeBSD.jar
• jffi-i386-OpenBSD.jar
• jffi-ppc-Linux.jar
• jffi-sparc-SunOS.jar
• jffi-s390x-Linux.jar (but see Add native Linux s390x archive #114)

1. Is there any reason for that or is this just historical baggage?
2. Why are the libraries in individual JARs anyways? AFAICS they are unpacked and repacked in the mvn build anyways, so why not store them as-is?

[headius]

I'm not sure of the historical reason for having platform jars without the native binary. They may be placeholders to allow partial support, but without the native binding I'm not sure what such support would mean.

Also unsure of the reason why the original author of this library decided to put the libraries in individual jars. Theorizing: perhaps so they could be packaged separately in Maven, and you only pull down the platform you need?

I am open to changing both of these structures.