[1461] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Java in Solaris 2.6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Aug 14 16:24:04 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:11:49 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:23:59 EDT
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>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.
That's fine with me, but we probably will have to deal with
considerable user confusion as a result. Java is getting to be very
heavily used, though in courses based on it, the TAs and Faculty will be
able to explain this to the students...
A.
