Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 19:44:33 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org> To: Nick Johnson <freebsd@spatula.net> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports and /usr/local/java Message-ID: <200208161744.TAA10264@smtp.hccnet.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020816101811.B29093-100000@turing.morons.org> References: <20020816101811.B29093-100000@turing.morons.org>
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Nick,
There is already a proposal for a standard, documented, directory structure
for Java ports. But it's not implemented yet. The ball is in my hands at the
moment, but I haven't taken the time to score yet.
For now the rules -which I realise my ports don't obey- are as follows if you
look at the hier(7):
* All architecture-independent files should go into ${PREFIX}/share
* All Java files should go into ${PREFIX}/share/java
For the proposal I mentioned see:
http://people.freebsd.org/~znerd/javalibdirs.html
I know it's already outdated. It doesn't cover Java-based application since
at the time of writing I assumed these could just go into ${PREFIX}...
Ernst
On Friday 16 August 2002 19:24, Nick Johnson wrote:
> Ok, here I go rocking the boat.
>
> If you look through ports you'll see a ton of p5 modules that neatly drop
> themselves in well-known locations. This makes installing dependencies
> for perl stuff quite easy.
>
> Unfortunately, we don't have such a thing for java apps and classes since
> these things aren't tightly controlled by anyone, but I think it would be
> desirable for us to be able to do dependencies to make installation of
> java packages easier.
>
> So what do folks think about creating some kind of /usr/local/java
> hierarchy to manage this stuff? Maybe with some categories similar to the
> categories established in ports. I'm thinking of maybe something like
> this:
>
> /usr/local/java/
> /usr/local/java/contrib/packageName/{the whole package}
> /usr/local/java/site_java/{category}/{symlinks to jar files in contrib}
> /usr/local/java/makeClasspath
>
> I'll probably do something like this for myself regardless, but it seems
> like something like this could be beneficial to everyone, not just me.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Nick
>
>
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