Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:39:53 +0100 From: Ernst de Haan <znerd@freebsd.org> To: Rasputin <rasputin@submonkey.net>, java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal for Java(tm) dependency selection among ports Message-ID: <200111191639.fAJGdro13223@zaphod.euronet.nl> In-Reply-To: <20011119163216.B56021@shikima.mine.nu> References: <20011115130202.E33074@johncoop.MSHOME> <200111191317.fAJDHRi12634@zaphod.euronet.nl> <20011119163216.B56021@shikima.mine.nu>
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Rasputin and all,
> Sorry to jump in after the fact ,but I wondered if there
> was a specific problem with JAVA_VER
>
> - this would tie in nicely with things like
>
> XFREE86_VERSION and OS_VERSION, etc,
> and could be compared against in the same way that
> many ports use OS_VERSION (i.e. numerically > )
Sounds reasonable. I was trying to keep things simple, dividing the Java
version number into minor/medior/major, but you're right, this functionality
is already available, so why not use it. Okay, then I suggest using
"JAVA_VERSION" instead of "JAVA_VER" to keep in sync with "XFREE86_VERSION"
and "OS_VERSION". I will update the proposal.
> In any case, I think make.conf would be suitable to hold
> relevant variables (once we decide what they are).
Sounds reasonable. Will think this over.
> If an app needs a specific version of a JRE/JDK surely it can
> just have a RUN_DEPENDS clause that points to an absolute path
This is always possible, perhaps we can improve this as well.
> Also most ports seem to use JAVADIR or JAVA_HOME -
> the two seem fairly interchangable so perhaps they could be merged in here
> as well??
We should choose the name that covers the load best. Perhaps one or more out
of these:
JAVA_HOME
JDK_HOME
JRE_HOME
> A lot of ports seem to use dependencies specific to whoever
> wrote the port, so this is a mess worth fixing - roll on bsd.java.mk :)
/me hi5s rasputin
Ernst
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