Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:28:05 -0500 From: Dave Glowacki <dglo@hyde.ssec.wisc.edu> To: absinthe@pobox.com Cc: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.ORG>, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Ant (continued) Message-ID: <200208272128.g7RLS5n00453@hyde.ssec.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:09:56 EDT." <200208271709.56356.absinthe@pobox.com>
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Dylan Carlson wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 August 2002 03:54pm, Dave Glowacki wrote:
> > About the only sharable code in the old days was in the form of
> > shell scripts and troff or make macros; not surprisingly, the
> > "libraries" for the latter two can be found in /usr/share/tmac/
> > and /usr/share/mk/
> > As another counterexample, bison and the GNU auto* tools
> > (libtool, automake, autoconf, etc) install their libraries
> > under ${PREFIX}/share.
> >
>
> ... those are macros, not binaries, not libraries.
You're now getting into semantics.
> Consistency with the heirarchy, as it is used elsewhere, is more important
> than arguing over semantics of "share", in my opinion. Or, for that matter,
> protecting the location where some ports are currently installed.
And you're also implying that I'm only in this discussion to
"protect the location" currently being used.
I think I've given some good reasons why jar files should stay
somewhere under the share/ hierarchy, and I don't think anything
more can be accomplished by the two of us arguing, so why don't
we let the rest of the mailing list weigh in with their opinions?
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