Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:04:07 -0500 From: Dave Glowacki <dglo@hyde.ssec.wisc.edu> To: absinthe@pobox.com Cc: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.ORG>, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Ant (continued) Message-ID: <200208271704.g7RH48n27054@hyde.ssec.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:30:12 EDT." <200208271230.12369.absinthe@pobox.com>
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Dylan Carlson wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 August 2002 12:19pm, Ernst de Haan wrote:
>
> >
> > Should they? I think they should at _least_ go below ${PREFIX}/share/java/
> > according to hier(7)...
> >
>
> Calvin and I discussed this in the previous thread about the ports spec. All
> the others (Perl, Python, PHP) use ${PREFIX}/lib/%lang%/ for their
> third-party libraries... and we also agreed that the Java libs should follow
> this tradition as well, since it seems to be the accepted practice among
> non-C languages.
>
> So for us that would be ${PREFIX}/lib/java/ or /usr/local/lib/java for most
> people.
>
> Sound reasonable?
Nope. Sharable libraries should go under share/, and since Jar
files are almost always sharable, they should follow this convention.
If anything, Perl/Python/PHP should install their library files under
share/, unless there's some reason they're not sharable.
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