[csw-maintainers] Java... again!

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Mon Nov 17 18:37:02 CET 2008


On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:21:32PM +0100, Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
> Phil asked if the directory should be "java" and that what what I 
> originally wanted too, but Sun uses /usr/java as a symlink to the latest 
> java, just like /usr/jdk/latest.
> 
> So this is what I want:
> 
> /opt/csw/jdk/jdk1.5.0_16
> /opt/csw/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0 -> ../jdk1.5.0_16
> 
> /opt/csw/jdk/jdk1.6.0_10
> /opt/csw/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0 -> ../jdk1.5.0_10

Hmm. I dont think it is nice to "burn" two top-level directories, one for
jdk and one for kre.

Why dont you like having a combined directory, 

/opt/csw/java/1.5.0_16

that has both the jre and jdk of that version under it?




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