ian at hawk.freenetproject.org (Ian Clarke) writes: > I don't think "let's try to establish a whole new standard at the > expense of usability" is particularly responsible either, that isn't our > job. I don't even agree that the concept of a unified Java tree is a > good one nescessarily anyway - Unix has long had a unified tree into > which applications are installed yet the creators of Plan 9,?who know > their shit, have opted to segregate applications on a per-application > basis in a manner not dissimiliar to the .jar file concept. > > Ian. >
Is there any expense in usability if we pick a directory to install java packages into? There's probably a few other open source java programs that we could get on this bandwagon. I'll be suprised if we start a movement, but it's not going to hurt. As for Plan 9's install, what about the info structure that lots of programs are moving to for documentation? It's centralized in its organization, having a /etc/info-dir maintain a directory of all the installed info files. (/me omits discussion of MacOS's resource fork) Thelema -- E-mail: thelema314 at bigfoot.com Raabu and Piisu GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
