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2005/5/12, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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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