CLASSPATH and Jikes

["Adam Majer" <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>]

Hi all,

At this moment I am the maintainer for Jikes. The one thing that I
do not like about the package is that it does not work out of the
box without some intervention from the user. That is, CLASSPATH 
needs to be defined.

The trouble is that I don't think it is up to me to decide which 
java classes jikes should use. I propose the following:

Debconf should be used to allow the user to select the priority
of the classes that jikes should check for. IOW, something like

[1] - Kaffe
[2] - Other [admin enters path]
[3] - IBM JDK
[4] - Sun.
etc...

I looked over the Java policy and it seems to imply that user
should be able to use a compiler out of the box as the package
should find the installed classes.

Should I implement this or use some other magic?

Thank you,
Adam


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