Re: A suggestion to list core classes

[Paul Reavis <preavis@partnersoft.com>]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 
> >From Edouard G. Parmelan <egp@free.fr>, one of the Kaffe upstream developers,
> a proposal to the Java policy:
> 
> Each java-virtual-machine comes with a /etc/java-core-classes (using
> alternatives to manage it). This file contains the list of jars and
> directories with core classes.

Define "core classes".

> For Kaffe, here is an example:
> 
>     # Kaffe Core Classes
>     /usr/share/kaffe/Klasses.jar
>     /usr/share/kaffe/comm.jar
>     /usr/share/kaffe/pjava.jar
>     /usr/share/kaffe/servlet.jar
>     /usr/share/kaffe/rmi.jar
>     #/usr/share/kaffe/tools.jar
>     #/usr/share/kaffe/microsoft.jar
>     #/usr/share/kaffe/kjc.jar
> 
> And may be, to help Jikes:
> 
>     # Debian policy for Java
>     /usr/share/java/repository
> 
> Advice?

Perhaps (to be even more flexible) if directories are listed, include
all jars in directory as well?

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Paul Reavis                                      preavis@partnersoft.com
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