Peter Reilly wrote:
Dominique Devienne wrote:
Well, -lib is not a classpath. It's more like java.ext.dirs, i.e. all JARs in these directories are picked up. This makes it a lot more convenient than having to specify a full classpath.
That said, since -lib is also used to pass in the user CLASSPATH, it shouldn't change the meaning of the classpath, as Peter pointed out.
So basically we should leave -lib as-is, and introduce a new -cp
(or -classpath or both) to pass in a true class path, and change
the launcher script to do -cp %CLASSPATH% (or -cp "$CLASSPATH").
Exactly, -cp could be the the name to use instead of -lib "$CLASSPATH".
-cp would not a user visible option, it would be set in the the ant[.bat] file
and removed in Launcher.java.
Laucher.java would check that it is only set once.
I have the changes ready to commit, if people think this is good idea..
+1.
this is a good solution. we could tell people off for having a . in their Classpath, too :)
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