[csw-maintainers] Java... again!

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:16:03PM -0600, Joshua Buysse wrote:
> > What are you envisioning being in /opt/csw/java, besides the single
> > directory "instances"?
> 
> Directories for bin, lib, man, and include that point through to the  
> "active" instance (jdk/jre symlinks in instances).  That way, a  
> currently selected java version can always be found if PATH includes / 
> opt/csw/java/bin, and MANPATH includes /opt/csw/java/man (or /opt/csw/ 
> java/share/man, but that's not how Sun packages it).

What about /opt/csw/java/bin, lib, man, being symlinks to ./{VERSION}/bin, 
instead of ./instances/{VERSION}/bin  ?

I personally think that is a little cleaner; shorter paths are usually
nicer, in my opinion :-)