Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 08:23:25 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com> To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>, sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java port behavior ideas Message-ID: <20010526082325.A405@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> In-Reply-To: <3B0EBB67.3020708@quack.kfu.com>; from nsayer@quack.kfu.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:07:03PM -0700 References: <3B0C3A63.3020908@quack.kfu.com> <200105241911.f4OJBtS32613@mail.uic-in.net> <20010526045110.A18502@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20010525215138.A55928@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <3B0EBB67.3020708@quack.kfu.com>
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Hi Nick,
> > The dependencies, however, would be a more complex story. We should search
> > through the current Makefiles to see what ports depend on what JDK. Perhaps we
> > can have an intermediate situation, where the old dirs still exist and contain
> > a Makefile that just points to the new location. I know this construct is used
> > in other places in the ports tree as well.
>
> I think the best situation is to abstract it all by adding something
> along the lines of
>
> USE_JAVA=
> yes
>
> which would add a dependency on the vmwrapper and _any_ acceptable
> JRE/JDK (perhaps with a make.conf default or some such).
Well, if extended a little bit this would be quite useful. Note that ports
usually depend on a certain minimum version of a Java Runtime Environment. So
we could introduce a bsd.java.mk file, as suggested previously, and introduce:
USE_JAVA11= YES
USE_JAVA12= YES
USE_JAVA13= YES
USE_JAVA14= YES
In combination with the new javavmwrapper this should work like a charm =)
> I would appreciate the disk space savings from being able to run
> Konqueror and browser plugins and JAR files with a JRE only, since I
> don't actually do any java development myself.
Okay, the default should be to install a JRE iso a JDK.
> As for the where-to-place-JAR-files-and-jar-running-scripts issue,
> remember that at least one port (net/airport) installs multiple JAR
> files, so a shell script binding of $PREFIX/bin/$PORTNAME ->
> $PREFIX/share/$PORTNAME/${PORTNAME}.jar won't do.
Nope. So does Orion. And so does ArgoUML (I intend to write a port for it in
the no-so-distant future).
/Ernst
--
Ernst de Haan
Java Architect
Jollem Information Technology
"Come to me all who are weary and burdened
and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ
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