-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 13 April 2004 17:04, Robert Lougher wrote: > Hi Sascha, > > Yes, I know :) I couldn't decide whether it was a good idea to > slavishly follow Sun's options or not. The -X (as you're obviously > aware) means "non-standard options", and includes -Xms and -Xmx which I > also do not have an X in front of (as used to be in JDK 1.1.x). Also, > on Sun's VM, -classpath is specified as -classpath xxx:yyy whereas > -Xbootclasspath is -Xbootclasspath:xxx:yyy which is (in my mind anyway) > confusing. On JamVM it's -bootclasspath xxx:yyy (added in 1.1.1), so > I'd have had to change that as well. > > CC'ing to the mailing list, as I'm interested in other people's opinions > on this!
In my opinion the GNU standard makes a lot more sense for any command line tool; even Java. This means I would go even further; to have the 'classpath' option start with 2 dashes (--classpath) as we are used to from GNU tools. The opinion that everything should look as much the same as possible seems a bit naive (to me personally) in that I doubt any JVM could ever approach 100% compatibility with the moving target of Sun. Remember that the options and installation and various other little things change with each release! I surely hope the open source community will not follow Sun with that :} Just my 2 cents. - -- Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfB08CojCW6H2z/QRAqLXAJ9zGi8A3pq+8baaZJsHxJnj97nAgwCghbGH lLWua8N3FIg6XILMik9CYco= =9ZqN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
