Re: CLASSPATH confusion

1998-11-26 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Having it "fixed" in 1.2 won't help us, as Jikes is designed to run with > all but most ancient JDK's. You supply the classes.zip (or jar, or > whatever), we provide the bytecode. Sigh. I imagine you'll think of a switch such as +1.2 to give it 1.2

RE: CLASSPATH confusion

1998-11-25 Thread Michael Sinz
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:28:53 +0200, Jaco Greeff wrote: >> Actually, in JDK 1.1, CLASSPATH does not need to be set to >> get the core Java classes.zip file. The Java wrapper does that. > >Ok. That makes sense. I actually found this out without even trying and was >quite surprised! > >> The othe

RE: CLASSPATH confusion

1998-11-25 Thread Jaco Greeff
> Actually, in JDK 1.1, CLASSPATH does not need to be set to > get the core Java classes.zip file. The Java wrapper does that. Ok. That makes sense. I actually found this out without even trying and was quite surprised! > The other thing that would be good is a standard place to put > jar/zi

RE: CLASSPATH confusion

1998-11-25 Thread Michael Sinz
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 07:38:11 +0200, Jaco Greeff wrote: >> Having it "fixed" in 1.2 won't help us > >Sorry for the total ignorance, but I've been hearing a lot about the >CLASSPATH that doesn't need to be set in 1.2. Is this true? Where does >"java" (1.2) look for the jar/zip/class files then? Or

RE: CLASSPATH confusion

1998-11-25 Thread Jaco Greeff
> Having it "fixed" in 1.2 won't help us Sorry for the total ignorance, but I've been hearing a lot about the CLASSPATH that doesn't need to be set in 1.2. Is this true? Where does "java" (1.2) look for the jar/zip/class files then? Or will it still need to be specified? Ok, doesn't have anythin

Re: CLASSPATH confusion

1998-11-24 Thread shieldsd
Having it "fixed" in 1.2 won't help us, as Jikes is designed to run with all but most ancient JDK's. You supply the classes.zip (or jar, or whatever), we provide the bytecode. Sigh. dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ibm.com/research/jikes

Re: CLASSPATH confusion

1998-11-24 Thread Bryce McKinlay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sinz writes: > > CLASSPATH, as it is currently implemented by various JVMs, JDKs, and > browsers is, IMHO, one of the most confusing, broken, and expensive > problems in Java (expensive in the cost of support and the like) > > I couldn't agree more. It's the most freque