On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 02:24:25PM +0200, raphael.jo...@free.fr wrote: > No, it is not supposed to set the classpath. This is a limitation of > the Linux-Java integration. The main problem I think is that in Java > you rarely depend on every library available at the same time. You > want to partition things to avoid collisions.
Hm, this is something of a surprise to me. I thought that Java's use of reverse domain name (aka "reverse-DNS") notation for namespacing was intended to avoid collisions, so that workarounds like having to manually specify the classpath for each invocation would be unnecessary. > I agree that it would be better if it worked as in the C/C++ world, > that is, you install a library and it is made available automatically > in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Indeed. But I thought that this was roughly how things were supposed to work in the Java world too, at least when installing via the default package manager in a sane distro (e.g. via apt in Debian). Isn't that what Debian packaging tools like javahelper are supposed to help facilitate? E.g. https://people.debian.org/~apo/java/tutorial.html Or is it really *intended*, by Debian developers or package maintainers, that Debian users who install the antlr4 package would have to manually specify the classpath in order to run javac on Antlr4 .java files? > As a matter of fact, I have developed my own Java desktop environment, > just to be able to solve this problem. The idea is that everything > runs in a single JVM. I am using maven central as software package > repository/market. So, it operates sort of like Android, but with the > standard JDK. Here it is if you are interested: > > https://github.com/rjolly/linoleum Thanks for the heads-up. That's an ambitious project and I wish you luck with it, but I think it is probably overkill for my needs. -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.
