Re: "jars" directory

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From: Tim Wilkinson (tim@transvirtual.com)
Date: Tue Dec 08 1998 - 20:28:50 EST


I think adding an auto jar detecter is a good idea (I put one into Kaffe
at one point but I think someone removed it - though I've not checked
recently). The proper place for it is probably in the C kaffe code
(it'd be fast there too) rather than in the shell code - but I suppose
it doesn't matter that much either way.

Tim

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Dec 4, 1998, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> wrote:
>
> > It looks like we have interest and consensus (?) to add a directory
> > like /usr/local/share/kaffe/jars that would allow "dumping" of JAR
> > and ZIP files, which would be automatically added to CLASSPATH.
>
> I'm not really sure about it. I don't know about any other Java
> platform that does this, but I may just be uninformed.
>
> Furthermore, having to perform a directory search every time a Java
> application is started may be too much overhead. How about just
> sourcing fragments such as /usr/local/share/kaffe/kafferc and
> $HOME/.kafferc, if they exist, before starting Kaffe?
>
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> Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
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> Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

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