From owner-freebsd-java Tue Aug 27 10: 4:22 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 2606637B400; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hyde.ssec.wisc.edu (hyde.ssec.wisc.edu [128.104.109.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2E943E6A; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:04:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dglo@hyde.ssec.wisc.edu) Received: from hyde.ssec.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hyde.ssec.wisc.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g7RH48n27054; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:04:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200208271704.g7RH48n27054@hyde.ssec.wisc.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: absinthe@pobox.com Cc: Ernst de Haan , java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Ant (continued) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:30:12 EDT." <200208271230.12369.absinthe@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:04:07 -0500 From: Dave Glowacki 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 Dylan Carlson wrote: > On Tuesday 27 August 2002 12:19pm, Ernst de Haan wrote: > > > > > Should they? I think they should at _least_ go below ${PREFIX}/share/java/ > > according to hier(7)... > > > > Calvin and I discussed this in the previous thread about the ports spec. All > the others (Perl, Python, PHP) use ${PREFIX}/lib/%lang%/ for their > third-party libraries... and we also agreed that the Java libs should follow > this tradition as well, since it seems to be the accepted practice among > non-C languages. > > So for us that would be ${PREFIX}/lib/java/ or /usr/local/lib/java for most > people. > > Sound reasonable? Nope. Sharable libraries should go under share/, and since Jar files are almost always sharable, they should follow this convention. If anything, Perl/Python/PHP should install their library files under share/, unless there's some reason they're not sharable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message