On Sunday 12 May 2002 22:00, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:40:05PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > I disagree on that class files should be placed in a -dev package for the > > same reason as I want every jar file to be placed in /usr/share/java > > (maybe with an exception for jvm:s). You should always be allowed > > to use the classes for some other purpose than just for some > > executable to run. > > Ok, then it is just a question of naming. Say my foo library can be > compiled to .class files and GCJ .so files. One option is to > package both in libfoo-java, which would be architecture specific. > But if you want to split them into an architecture-specific and an > architecture-independent package, what do you call them? libfoo-java > and libfoo-gcj-java?
If it would be architecture specific it would be like stuff compiled from C. Thus libfoo and not libfoo-gcj-java... However, if libfoo is taken already you have trouble; then you would have a name clash and libfoo-gcj might not be too bad... Egon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]