Re: A suggestion to list core classes

[John Leuner <jewel@pixie.co.za>]

> > >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.
> > 
> > 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?

It may be obvious, but there could be cases where one JVM uses different
versions of a class library (or different class libraries).

So just make sure to cater for versioned class libs. 

/usr/share/classpath0.00/rt.jar
/usr/share/classpath  -> symlinked to default / latest classpath ?
/usr/share/classpath_with_sable_mods0.01/rt.jar


John Leuner