[csw-maintainers] Java... again!

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Mon Nov 17 19:54:18 CET 2008


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:45:13PM -0600, Joshua Buysse wrote:
> No real difference, as long as a current/active symlink is used -- the  
> key is that only one symlink needs to be changed to switch the default  
> version of java.  (ie, in /opt/csw/java, current -> jdk-1.5.0_16, or  
> jdk -> jdk-1.4.2_xx, etc.)
> 
> The java plugin for firefox should probably symlink to /opt/csw/java/ 
> current/... as well.

so then we get to quibble about whether that symlink should be called 
"current", "default", "stable", "latest", ...... :-)

I think that "default" seems to most closely fit the purpose of the thing.




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