Support for decompressing jar files is missing

[renner]

Trying to create a tetra project based on sources packaged as *.jar fails to decompress the jarfile:

$> tetra.ruby2.1 init saltstack-netapi-client-java ../../saltstack-lib-release/target/saltstack-netapi-client-0.4.0-sources.jar
Project inited in saltstack-netapi-client-java/.
Decompressing sources...
Failed to run `tar xvf /devel/git/saltstack-lib-release/target/saltstack-netapi-client-0.4.0-sources.jar --directory src` (exit status 2)

[moio]

That's a strange usage of jar.

Usually jarred source archives just contain the project sources for debugging purposes, and they don't contain build scripts and any other resource needed to produce a working artifact. In all cases I can remember, the source jar archive is not the same archive that you can use to actually build something working.

I think in your case you need to start from the Git project snapshot:

wget https://github.com/SUSE/saltstack-netapi-client-java/archive/v0.4.0.tar.gz
tetra init saltstack-netapi-client-java v0.4.0.tar.gz

[renner]

That's right, it won't work with the jarred sources. Sorry for the noise, closing the issue.