ota-2@andrew.pimlott.net writes: > I also think the jikes-kaffe, etc proposals are silly: You should > be able to achieve the same with a simple "jikes -bootclasspath > /wherever/kaffe/puts/Klasses.jar". Oh, you don't seem to know the path from the top of your head! Me neither. That's the point of jikes-kaffe: relieving you from having to remember the obscure bootclasses path(s). Of course this could be combined sensibly with your idea: If everybody providing a JRE would provide /usr/share/<mumble>/<pkgname>.classpath we could enhance jikes (or a simple shell wrapper, not necessary named "jikes") so that "-jre foo" would take the base classes from package foo. Using *just* alternatives is IMHO not enough as the needs of some users may differ from the system default. -- Robbe
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