From owner-freebsd-java Fri Aug 16 11:47:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE5937B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0955B43E72 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:47:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from znerd@FreeBSD.org) Received: from there by smtp.hccnet.nl via uds45-45.dial.hccnet.nl [62.251.45.45] with SMTP id UAA24942 (8.8.8/1.13); Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:47:27 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200208161847.UAA24942@smtp.hccnet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Ernst de Haan Organization: FreeBSD Project To: absinthe@pobox.com, Nick Johnson , freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports and /usr/local/java Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:47:23 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020816101811.B29093-100000@turing.morons.org> <200208161406.32773.absinthe@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <200208161406.32773.absinthe@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 1. JAR files: /usr/local/share/java/classes (sax, xerces do this > already) 2. Non JAR class packages and support files: > /usr/local/share/java/%%JAVA_VER%%/%%PKG_NAME%%/ > (jedit does this, while wrapped with an executable in /usr/local/bin) > 3. Documentation: /usr/local/share/doc/%%PKG_NAME%%/ > 4. "toolkit" ports go into /usr/ports/devel ... perhaps prefixed with > "java-" 5. Applications go wherever they should be classified, no prefix. See my proposed solution. It's pretty much alike. > While it's little more than a technical point, the term "JDK" has been > retired by Sun ... it's now "SDK", going back to 1.2.x. Yeah, but Sun has always had a schizofrenic way of naming things (not unlike many other IT companies, like Intel or Microsoft). Why does Solaris 6 identify itself as SunOS 2.6, for instance? And why is version 1.2 of the Java SDK named Java 2? And then version 1.3 is suddenly not named Java 3, but Java 2 version 1.3? Both their naming scheme and their versioning scheme are a bit weird IMHO. Anyway, the developer community calls a JDK a JDK, because that's the term everybody got used to, and it's much easier than saying Java 2 SDK or Java 2 SE SDK or anything like that. Don't forget that we're dealing with J2SE here, not J2EE or J2ME or anything like that... And I also wonder why the URL http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.2/ ^^^^ redirects me and takes me here: http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/ ^^^ ;-) Ernst To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message