[1460] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Java in Solaris 2.6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Aug 14 16:11:53 1998
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:11:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1429] in Release_7.7_team"
Sorry to let this drop for a bit.
> /usr/java/bin athena% ls -F
> appletviewer* javac* javald* native2ascii* sparc@
> jar* javadoc* javap* rmic*
> java* javah* jdb* rmiregistry*
> java_g* javakey* jre* serialver*
Some of these are unlikely to be invoked by users, but yes, you're
right, there's a lot more than just java and javac.
I think we have the following options at the release level:
* Do nothing, and tell people to "add -f java" to use the
site-wide java tools.
* Make attach and run scripts for all the above commands.
* Arrange not to track in the symlinks from /usr/bin to
/usr/java/bin.
I am currently partial to the first option. I think that over time we
will start seeing more operating systems provide native java support,
just as they all currently provide native C support. Trying to take
the native "java" and "javac" commands out of the default path will
become a hassle both for us and for users who might expect (for one
reason or another) to get the native tools unless they take other
action.
