Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:06:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Akinori -Aki- MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org>, ade@FreeBSD.org, asami@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Message-ID: <200009212006.NAA18943@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <200009211731.LAA60133@harmony.village.org> "from Warner Losh at Sep 21, 2000 11:31:12 am"
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Warner Losh writes: > : > We're only 400 ports away from 6!*6. That's just a long weekend for > : > Steve Price, so we should see that before 4.2 :-) > : > : Okay, you can find me another language than Ruby! > : > : Err, just kidding. :-> > > Hmmm. I almost said that if we found another language that we could > do this in under a day. I think both java and python are > underrepresented in the tree right now. We've got boatloads of ruby > things, a blue million P5- libraries, but very few from Java and > Python. [ nb: moving this thread to freebsd-java@freebsd.org ] This brings up a semi-serious point. There is tons of Java code out there that is distributed as JAR files, or maybe JAR files plus a native shared library. Just taking one a random example, SableCC: http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/sablecc/ This is an application, but there are also various Java libraries. We need to have a standard way of installing this kind of software. Better yet, it should work for any of our Java runtimes (JDK, kaffe, ...?) For example, we could specify that: - All JAR files go into /usr/local/share/java/jars (replace /usr/local with your favorite ${PREFIX} of course). - All native shared libraries files go into /usr/local/lib/java - Ports of application code should install helper scripts, e.g.: #!/bin/sh # Note: this script is stored as /usr/local/bin/sablecc JARSDIR=/usr/local/share/java/jars CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:${JARSDIR}/sablecc-2.13.jar export CLASSPATH java SableCC ${1+"$@"} If there was a shared library, it would be added to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable in this script as well. Etc. - Ports should install man pages as well This way you could install and run as easy as this: $ cd /usr/ports/java/sablecc $ make all install $ sablecc ... Thoughts? -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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