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Re: Java policy and ABI changes



* Marcus Better:

> I think the Java policy needs to be tweaked to allow for multiple versions
> of the same library. The problem is much easier than for C libraries, since
> we don't have a dynamic linker, so the user is responsible for adding the
> correct library to the classpath.

Not quite true, there is in fact a dynamic linker (Class-Path:
attribute in the manifest).  I think it should be used, otherwise you
can't add a new dependency without breaking all the wrapper scripts in
reverse dependencies.



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