Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:55:16 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting java stuff? Proposal? Message-ID: <199812300555.WAA03264@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <3689A1DB.3B844BF@partitur.se> References: <3689A1DB.3B844BF@partitur.se>
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> Sorry for the cross post, but I think it's needed here, since many > people don't seem to follow both ports and java lists. > > Short version: > > I propose that there should be a directory where FreeBSD ports can put > java library files (aka .jar files). My suggestion is > $PREFIX/share/java/lib. Sounds good, but.... > Long version: > > I have almost finished a port for jsdk-2.0 (java servlet development > kit). > > JSDK is distributed as a tarball with precompiled java classes, docs, > examples and stuff in a bunch of directories. Naturally, since it's the > easiest for the people making the software, the recommended installation > is to extract the tarball into /usr/local/JSDK2.0, add > /usr/local/JSDK2.0/bin to the search path and /usr/local/JSDK2.0/lib to > the CLASSPATH, etc... ... > Now, beeing a BSD:er, I have split the directories in the JSDK tarball > as follows, relative to $PREFIX (usually /usr/local): > > bin -> bin (i.e. /usr/local/bin) > lib -> share/java/lib > src -> share/java/src > examples -> share/examples/jsdk > doc -> share/doc/jsdk .... > I propose that we have a common /usr/local/share/java/lib where ports > (and manually too) can put jar files (and sources in share/java/src?). The problem with this is that it makes it much harder to track 3rd party stuff, because that stuff is created separately and *expects* the directory hierarchy to be the way it was created. By breaking it up you make a couple of things harder. 1) If they totally re-organize their distribution upgrading the port is harder to upgrade. 2) Dependencies are harder to track. 3) Java is a moving target, and having multiple version of Java on your system is a going to be a very strong possibility. 1) JDK1.1 a.out/ELF 2) JDK1.2 a.out/ELF I could a single machine having easily 1 or 2 binaries on it, depending on alot of factors. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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