From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 08 1998 - 20:53:52 EST
I'd still vote for a different directory than where Klasses.jar is.
Otherwise, we just invite problems.
- Godmar
>
> 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?
> >
> > --
> > Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
> > oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
> > Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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