Hi Ben,
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Ben Burton wrote:
>
> > Looks good mate - one question though: How can a startup script for a
> > pre-packaged application (or alternatively one of the pre-packaged
> > recognition scripts) find out which registry file it should read when
> > more than one debianised jvm package is installed ? Do you propose
> > a symlink somewhere to the active registry file ?
>
> A pre-packaged application should never query the registry files directly;
> it should only use the recognition scripts in java-common. These scripts
> will do things like search through all the registry files for a JVM of
> version >= foo, or hunt down the registry file of whichever JVM is
> referenced by the /usr/bin/java alternative and return properties of that
> JVM.
Ok, so where do we go from here ? It would be terrible if all this good
discussion resulted in nothing. What steps do you think we need to
take next ?
Cheers,
Marcus
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