Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:29:23AM +1000, Ben Burton wrote:

> In addition, if a user wants to add their own classes to the classpath
> (e.g., with jython where adding your own classes can be advantageous
> even if the app itself doesn't need them), they can set $CLASSPATH
> before running the script.  The script then sets:
> 
>   export CLASSPATH="foo.jar:bar.jar:$CLASSPATH"
> 
> and everything just works.  This is somewhat more difficult to arrange
> with command-line options.

java -classpath foo.jar:bar.jar:$CLASSPATH

(-classpath overrides $CLASSPATH)

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 - mdz