On Thu, May 12, 2005, Michael Schloh wrote:
>Triggered by a thoughtful observation from Matthias KURZ [0], we
>considered how the future package structure should be for packages
>containing java bytecodes (.jar or .class files). Please post objections
>to the standard we concluded on.
>
>A java package contains bytecode files in %{l_prefix}/lib/<pkgname>
>along with all its runtime resources.
>
>The j2se package itself stays in %{l_prefix}/libexec/j2se due to its
>platform specific code.
>
>So for example in the instance /openpkg we have:
>
> /openpkg/libexec/j2se
> /openpkg/lib/ant
>
>It is unclear if a new abstraction is needed along the lines of
>the package perl-openpkg. If so it would be called java-openpkg.
>The main question is how to coerce java bytecode to recognize
>the redirected destination paths of any resource dependencies.
Some of this was discussed in a thread I started in March 2003,
subject ``Java CLASSPATH Standards''. On 6 March 2003, Michael
Schloh von Bennewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There's no standard so let's make one ;-) %{l_prefix}/lib/java/
is generic and makes sense to me. If nobody complains, then
it's the new CLASSPATH standard and will be documented as such.
There are already some jar files installed to
%{l_prefix}/libexec/j2se/, but I think we need to leave those
there (Sun has their own standard for where to find things.) I
ponder symlinks to %{l_prefix}/lib/java/, though.
Bill
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