From owner-freebsd-java Fri Aug 16 12:10:53 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 E1C2337B400; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:10:51 -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 9895B43E4A; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:10:51 -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 17fmUj-0002gC-00; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:10:49 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@pobox.com To: Ernst de Haan , Nick Johnson , freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports and /usr/local/java Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:10:53 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20020816101811.B29093-100000@turing.morons.org> <200208161406.32773.absinthe@pobox.com> <200208161847.UAA24942@smtp.hccnet.nl> In-Reply-To: <200208161847.UAA24942@smtp.hccnet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208161510.53915.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 Friday 16 August 2002 02:47pm, Ernst de Haan wrote: > > See my proposed solution. It's pretty much alike. > I like your proposal. I will fold it into the docs today and if the various maintainers don't feel it's amenable we can revise it. Eventually it should be folded into hier(7). The problem with that manpage is that it does not fully define the structure of /usr/local except to say that it should follow /usr. > Anyway, the developer community calls a JDK a JDK, because that's the term > everybody got used to, and it's much easier than saying Java 2 SDK or Java > 2 SE SDK or anything like that. Don't forget that we're dealing with J2SE > here, not J2EE or J2ME or anything like that... I have changed the documentation to reflect SDK for Sun 1.2.x 1.3.x and 1.4.x to be consistent with Sun's pages, and am addressing the SDK/JDK naming issue in the FAQ. Cheers, -- Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message