From owner-freebsd-java Wed May 15 12: 4: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147D337B405 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 12:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there by smtp.hccnet.nl via uds6-45.dial.hccnet.nl [62.251.45.6] with SMTP id VAA21371 (8.8.8/1.13); Wed, 15 May 2002 21:03:46 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200205151903.VAA21371@smtp.hccnet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Ernst de Haan Organization: FreeBSD Project To: mcclain@looneys.net, java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review: Standardising Java library directory locations Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 21:03:36 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <200205101311.PAA08481@smtp.hccnet.nl> <200205100920.58261.mcclain@looneys.net> In-Reply-To: <200205100920.58261.mcclain@looneys.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 10 May 2002 16:20, Mcclain Looney wrote: > I'm not sure a centralized storage model for libraries is such a good idea. > It's been my experience that many java apps are shipped with old, outdated > or incompatible "support" jar files (old versions of xalan or some such). > In addition to this, I've even seen jars shipped which contain the contents > of 4 or five other jars inside (several of which were old)!. This is why I would like all Java library ports to build from source and _depend_ on other Java library ports. First the ports that do not have any other Java library dependencies should be identified, added to the ports tree, and then we can start building up the tree from the bottom up :-) > I'm afraid centralized storage of java libs might lead to a "jarfile hell" > situation. Perhaps a versioned approach could be developed (similar to .so > links). Hmm, what exactly would you have in mind? I will think this over a bit more... Ernst To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message