From owner-freebsd-java Tue Aug 27 12:21:12 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 8B24B37B400; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D1343E65; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:21:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from absinthe@pobox.com) Received: from dhcp068-64-151-24.nt01-c4.cpe.charter-ne.com ([24.151.64.68] helo=laredo.retrovertigo.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17jlth-0002mS-00; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:21:05 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@pobox.com To: Dave Glowacki Subject: Re: Using Ant (continued) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:21:26 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: Ernst de Haan , java@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200208271704.g7RH48n27054@hyde.ssec.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200208271704.g7RH48n27054@hyde.ssec.wisc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208271521.26715.absinthe@pobox.com> 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 On Tuesday 27 August 2002 01:04pm, Dave Glowacki wrote: > Nope. Sharable libraries should go under share/, and since Jar > files are almost always sharable, they should follow this convention. > I guess I don't understand this logic. I think you're taking the word "share" beyond it's original scope of what people meant by "architecture-independent". JARs and classes are _libraries_, hence go under /lib. The same with Perl modules and Python. True-they may be architecture-independent, but /share is not meant for application libraries, it's used for man pages, info pages, config files, templates, dictionaries, timezone stuff, et al. Libraries belong in /lib. Perl and Python and PHP libraries, which are also architecture-neutral, are also done under lib, in their respective directories; I see no reason why we should change this behavior to confuse the situation with Java. -- Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message