Issue1513

The missing standard library in the maven artifact makes some things
very difficult. String handling is the most immediate problem, showing up
with:

LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding

It would be great if there was at least an option to get an artifact
with the full Lib.

Thanks,
Dave

I am seeing a more fundamental issue with this having to do with how
jython loads libraries. It appears that jython needs an explicit pointer
to the location of it's libs and cannot simply search the CLASSPATH.

So, even if the maven artifact includes the libraries, I don't know if 
it would work.

No. 

If the Lib directory is inside the jython.jar file (take a look at the
stand alone jar) it works just fine. 

The thing is that what needs to be included on this new maven artifact
is not the same normal jar included on the regular artifact, but the
stand-alone one.

It does appear to work if you run org.python.util.jython from the same jar
that has the Lib/ directory.

I've just verified that the running jython from a different jar than the
one containing the library does not work. You cannot package the libraries
separately without setting the JYTHONPATH explicitly.

Yes, that's correct AFAIU.

Does that fact get in the way somehow when creating a stand-alone maven
artifact?

2.5.3rc1 and all future releases will be hosted on maven central. The jython-standalone artifact contains the Lib/ see the announcement for links: http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2012/08/jython-253rc1-released.html