From owner-freebsd-java Fri Aug 16 10:24:15 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 9228B37B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from turing.morons.org (turing.morons.org [209.237.229.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA3743E3B for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@spatula.net) Received: by turing.morons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D859BAB54; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.morons.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D638BAB53 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:24:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Johnson X-X-Sender: spatula@turing.morons.org To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: ports and /usr/local/java Message-ID: <20020816101811.B29093-100000@turing.morons.org> X-what-happen: someone set up us the bomb X-Message-Flags: Spatula MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Ok, here I go rocking the boat. If you look through ports you'll see a ton of p5 modules that neatly drop themselves in well-known locations. This makes installing dependencies for perl stuff quite easy. Unfortunately, we don't have such a thing for java apps and classes since these things aren't tightly controlled by anyone, but I think it would be desirable for us to be able to do dependencies to make installation of java packages easier. So what do folks think about creating some kind of /usr/local/java hierarchy to manage this stuff? Maybe with some categories similar to the categories established in ports. I'm thinking of maybe something like this: /usr/local/java/ /usr/local/java/contrib/packageName/{the whole package} /usr/local/java/site_java/{category}/{symlinks to jar files in contrib} /usr/local/java/makeClasspath I'll probably do something like this for myself regardless, but it seems like something like this could be beneficial to everyone, not just me. Any thoughts? Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message