Hello, I wonder what the right way of building the classpath from a list of packages is? I see that there are symlinks in /usr/share/java/ and it seems I have to hardcode paths to these?
if so then something must be done. some problems: * I have to keep track of jar-jar dependencies instead of having this responsibility stay in the package of the java library * if the jar files split in a package, the symlink solution will not work and all upstream packages break the correct solution is a script like pkg-config that generates the classpath. gentoo has this, java-config, and I propose that this design along with the metadata file format is copied into debian ie we will have something like /usr/share/java/mylibrary.cp with dependencies. because every java package would have to be updated I propose to speed up the process that the initial java-config.deb will contain .cp2-files of the most common java libraries. whenever there is no .cp-file, the .cp2-file will be used. thus there will be no conflicts when the java library packages finally add their own .cp-files. I will get working on this if the proposal is supported. /Johan Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
