From owner-freebsd-java Tue Aug 27 14:28:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C75637B400; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:28:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hyde.ssec.wisc.edu (hyde.ssec.wisc.edu [128.104.109.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D31043E65; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:28:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dglo@hyde.ssec.wisc.edu) Received: from hyde.ssec.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hyde.ssec.wisc.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g7RLS5n00453; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:28:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200208272128.g7RLS5n00453@hyde.ssec.wisc.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: absinthe@pobox.com Cc: Ernst de Haan , java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Ant (continued) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:09:56 EDT." <200208271709.56356.absinthe@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:28:05 -0500 From: Dave Glowacki Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dylan Carlson wrote: > On Tuesday 27 August 2002 03:54pm, Dave Glowacki wrote: > > About the only sharable code in the old days was in the form of > > shell scripts and troff or make macros; not surprisingly, the > > "libraries" for the latter two can be found in /usr/share/tmac/ > > and /usr/share/mk/ > > As another counterexample, bison and the GNU auto* tools > > (libtool, automake, autoconf, etc) install their libraries > > under ${PREFIX}/share. > > > > ... those are macros, not binaries, not libraries. You're now getting into semantics. > Consistency with the heirarchy, as it is used elsewhere, is more important > than arguing over semantics of "share", in my opinion. Or, for that matter, > protecting the location where some ports are currently installed. And you're also implying that I'm only in this discussion to "protect the location" currently being used. I think I've given some good reasons why jar files should stay somewhere under the share/ hierarchy, and I don't think anything more can be accomplished by the two of us arguing, so why don't we let the rest of the mailing list weigh in with their opinions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message