Another problem with links would be that not all file systems support links.
Regards,
Volker
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Brian Burkhalter
brian.burkhal...@oracle.com wrote:
On Mar 10, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote:
D) Bidirectional: Java 9 and pre-9 preferences would be
On 03/10/2014 10:12 PM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
This issue (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8029770) concerns
improving preference handling (java.util.prefs.Preferences) on systems other
than Mac OS X and Windows, essentially Unix systems other than OS X. It would
be good to obtain
On 11/03/2014 12:09, Peter Levart wrote:
:
What is the purpose of changing the scheme? Is it just to be more
power-user and developer friendly? To enable users to inspect the
preferences with filesystem tools? What about a little command-line
and/or gui jprefs tool in the style of regedit or
What about providing a shell script with JDK 9 with functions to encode
names? Users can then just source the file into their scripts and helper
functions available to them. Hopefully this would alleviate dealing with
special characters.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Alan Bateman
This issue (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8029770) concerns
improving preference handling (java.util.prefs.Preferences) on systems other
than Mac OS X and Windows, essentially Unix systems other than OS X. It would
be good to obtain some comments on the behavior of the prospective
On Mar 10, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote:
D) Bidirectional: Java 9 and pre-9 preferences would be kept in sync.
If the scope of the change remains to naming only (leaving the file format
the same),
It is almost naming only; see below.
it may be possible to
implement option
