>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Thomas> In my opinion the GNU standard makes a lot more sense for any
Thomas> command line tool; even Java.  This means I would go even
Thomas> further; to have the 'classpath' option start with 2 dashes
Thomas> (--classpath) as we are used to from GNU tools.

Yeah.  For `gij' we accept both.

Thomas> The opinion that everything should look as much the same as
Thomas> possible seems a bit naive (to me personally) in that I doubt
Thomas> any JVM could ever approach 100% compatibility with the moving
Thomas> target of Sun.

That's true, but there is still some benefit if you are mostly
compatible.  For one thing you don't have to hack every wrapper script
to make it work with your VM.

Tom


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