Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 04:45:31 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Porting java stuff? Proposal? Message-ID: <3689A1DB.3B844BF@partitur.se>
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Hi, Sorry for the cross post, but I think it's needed here, since many people don't seem to follow both ports and java lists. Short version: I propose that there should be a directory where FreeBSD ports can put java library files (aka .jar files). My suggestion is $PREFIX/share/java/lib. Long version: I have almost finished a port for jsdk-2.0 (java servlet development kit). JSDK is distributed as a tarball with precompiled java classes, docs, examples and stuff in a bunch of directories. Naturally, since it's the easiest for the people making the software, the recommended installation is to extract the tarball into /usr/local/JSDK2.0, add /usr/local/JSDK2.0/bin to the search path and /usr/local/JSDK2.0/lib to the CLASSPATH, etc... sic... I have done this a lot when working with Solaris, and after a while the env variables were several miles long, and it's darn near impossible to get everthing right for many users etc... That's why FreeBSD has hier(7), and the ports collection, right? Now, beeing a BSD:er, I have split the directories in the JSDK tarball as follows, relative to $PREFIX (usually /usr/local): bin -> bin (i.e. /usr/local/bin) lib -> share/java/lib src -> share/java/src examples -> share/examples/jsdk doc -> share/doc/jsdk You can call me a lunatic for putting all this effort into splitting a perfectly well organized directory structure, but anyway... Most of the above list isn't very strange, it's like most other ports, but the share/java is different. (I threw out a question about where to put "ported" java .jar files on the java list a week or so ago, and almost started a flame war, but I'm putting my cheek out again :) I propose that we have a common /usr/local/share/java/lib where ports (and manually too) can put jar files (and sources in share/java/src?). The almost-flame-discussion was wheather this should be in /usr/local/lib, libdata, libexec or share, or maybe a fresh new directory. Well, I run other systems than FreeBSD (though I'd rather not :) , and I like the idea of share/java since I export share to all (unix) platforms (almost). java is platform independent, right? I'd really like to hear your opinions on this. Do you care at all about this matter? Is it important to split java tarballs up like this, or is it just asking for trouble (script wrappers usually has to be patched to some degree, making them possibly error prone...)? Shall we have java appliations in the ports collection? If so, shouldn't we have a USE_JDK macro which defines the JDK version, sort of like with perl? Palle Girgensohn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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