Re: JNI Installation Directories

2002-10-05 Thread Per Bothner
Ben Burton wrote: >IIRC the issue of automatically including every jar in /usr/share/java has >already been hashed out on this list and decided to be a bad idea (too much >overhead, poor control over conflicts, etc), thought I could be wrong. > I did on September 2 make the following suggestio

Re: java-compiler useless?

2002-10-05 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Notes: > - should we use Sun style -classpath or GNU standard (and so gcj style) > --classpath ? -classpath should definitely by supported. Most package's upstream build systems will follow Sun. Patching each occurance is silly. Of course, each javac ma

Re: Automatic classpath extension (was: JNI Installation Directories)

2002-10-05 Thread Ben Burton
[ Re your suggestions for /usr/share/java/ext: ] Sure, though I'm curious to know what classes you'd consider worthy for inclusion in /usr/share/java/ext, given that they'd AFAICT be augmenting the bootstrap classes - there by default and no way to remove them from the classpath. Anyway, aft

Re: JNI Installation Directories

2002-10-05 Thread Ben Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > If libraries should be found automatically, JAR files probably should > be found autmatically too. J2SE has "extension directories", all > classes from JAR files in these directories are available without > adding the JAR files to the CLASSPATH exp

Re: JNI Installation Directories

2002-10-05 Thread Per Bothner
Ben Burton wrote: IIRC the issue of automatically including every jar in /usr/share/java has already been hashed out on this list and decided to be a bad idea (too much overhead, poor control over conflicts, etc), thought I could be wrong. I did on September 2 make the following suggestion: Jav

Re: java-compiler useless?

2002-10-05 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Notes: > - should we use Sun style -classpath or GNU standard (and so gcj style) > --classpath ? -classpath should definitely by supported. Most package's upstream build systems will follow Sun. Patching each occurance is silly. Of course, each javac may

Re: Automatic classpath extension (was: JNI Installation Directories)

2002-10-05 Thread Ben Burton
[ Re your suggestions for /usr/share/java/ext: ] Sure, though I'm curious to know what classes you'd consider worthy for inclusion in /usr/share/java/ext, given that they'd AFAICT be augmenting the bootstrap classes - there by default and no way to remove them from the classpath. Anyway, afte