Jim Pick writes: > > I guess my only objection is that it would be nice if people shouldn't > > have to add /usr/local/kaffe/bin (or whatever) to their PATH in > > order to run kaffe after installing it... > > My biggest objection with the current situation is that if somebody already > has a version of Java they use installed in one of their system directories, > and then they install kaffe, they might overwrite an existing installation, > or programs on their system might accidentally use kaffe instead of another > existing JVM installed under /usr/bin, for example. Imagine a system > administrator trying to install kaffe to run a particular application on a > production server that already is running servlets with a system-supplied > JVM - if the system administrator wasn't careful, and didn't change the > defaults, then he or she is pretty much guaranteed to mess things up on > their system. Granted, a system administrator should know better, but I'm a > big believer in the principle of least surprise. :-)
If the goal is to support multiple JRE's at the same time (which is what everybody seems to want to do) then I guess there's no other option.. OK, I'm convinced :-) -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com