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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Environment Script System
From:       Jan Schulz <jan () katzien ! de>
Date:       2003-08-12 16:58:23
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Hello Colin,

Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 10:39:48 AM, you wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:32:16PM -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote:
>> number of ways for using alternatives to set the different available
>> executables from different competiting JVMs, and this would allow
>> alternatives to be used to manage the required Java environmental
>> variables.

Currently the /usr/bin/java alternative is not enough, as there are
too many differences between pre1.3, 1.3 and 1.4 (and 1.5 in half a
year..), so this system doesn't really works.

In debian-java is a discussion about 'how to make using java
easier', which just started a few days back.

> If Java requires magic environment variables, it should be fixed, by
> writing wrapper scripts if necessary.

Currently it does not! And it is not planed to rely on such a
system. On the other hand, most of the packages have the possebility
to use the bin/java in JAVA_HOME.

Jan


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