Re: [gentoo-java] CLASSPATH deprecated?

[Matt Bucknall <matt_bucknall@yahoo.co.uk>]

Okay. Thanks for the help.


Petteri Räty wrote:
> Matt Bucknall kirjoitti:
>   
>> Hi Federico,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply. My understanding is that java-config is specific
>> to Gentoo. I assume then, there is no cross-platform means of finding
>> out whether/where libraries are installed automatically (i.e. for use by
>> some installation process). Is it normal practice when deploying a Java
>> application to include all the JARs that it needs so not to rely on the
>> end-user having some packages already pre-installed?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Matt.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Nope, not in the java world. Hopefully we will have something like
> auto*, pkg-config etc in the java world too some day. It seems to be
> very usual for upstreams to include all the dependencies inside their
> source packages but the Linux distributions would appreciate if you also
> distributed a src tarball without these dependencies to save bandwidth
> and disk space. Packages are not going to use the bundled stuff.
>
> Regards,
> Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse
>
>   

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