Re: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository
On Sunday 7 November 1999, at 7 h 40, the keyboard of Christopher Cobb
<ccobb@cseg.com> wrote:
> 1) The global CLASSPATH environmental variable never worked for me. I have too
> many different versions of JVMs (blackdown, ibm, kaffe, 1.1, 1.2)
Yes, that the major pain with most Java environments, including Debian slink.
You cannot easily switch between Java tools. Some tools include '.' by
default, some don't, some do, but, when you set an explicit CLASSPATH, you
have to specify it, some add a pre-defined CLASSPATH to the one you specify,
etc.
The java-compiler-dummy and java-virtual-machine-dummy were intended to solve
this problem by setting a common model. But, at the present time, they are not
really completed.
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