At 10:41 AM 3/1/01 +1300, Len wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I notice that the version of beanshell distributed with jde is a bit
>behind the most recent stable version at www.beanshell.org. What's the
>easiest way to upgrade it: is it just as simple as dropping a new
>bsh.jar into the jde lib directory, or are there customizations to the
You can do that. It should work unless the latest version has introduced
incompatibilities with Emac as have previous versions.
>version distributed with jde that would cause a malfunction if I tried
>to use the standard bsh distribution (the mention of "JDE Patch" in the
Which version of the JDE are you using. The current version use beanshell
1.0 beta unpatched.
>beanshell startup message makes me wonder). There are extras in the new
>version that I'd like to use, but don't want to break jde.
The patch was needed to fix the Beanshell's command line interface which
used a java.io method that did not work correctly in JDK 1.1.x. The problem
occurred only if you were running JDK 1.1.x. Anyway I believe the problem
was fixed in subsequent versions.
>
>Side note: It does seem a little inconsistent that jde requires a few
>external lisp packages but comes with a version of beanshell. I'm just
>interested why there's the distinction.
Just history. I developed beanshell.el specifically for the JDE but with
the idea of ultimately spinning if off as an independent package (hence the
name). Unfortunately, I built some dependencies on the JDE into the current
version of beanshell.el and I have to date not had the time or incentive to
eliminate the dependencies and post it as an independent package.
- Paul
