On Thu, May 12, 2005, Henri Gomez wrote:
>Did you take a look at jpackage project, a rpm java distribution ?
I didn't -- probably because I don't ``Do Java'' much beyond installing the
java interface for OpenPKG.org and similar things. My Real Work(tm) tends
to be done in python or perl.
>www.jpackage.org
>
>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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