[3431] in java-interest
Re: organization of class path
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Aitken)
Sat Nov 11 23:15:53 1995
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:28:21 -0700
From: garya@village.org (Gary Aitken)
To: Thomas.Ball@Eng.Sun.COM (Thomas Ball), garya@village.org
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
>Yes, the Java development needs work, and several tools developers
>(both inside and outside of Sun) have expressed interest in providing
>better development environments for all of us. In the meantime,
>consider using any and all tools your platform already offers -- Java
>development will get better soon.
OK. But you didn't address:
>Wouldn't it be a relatively easy fix to determine if the current
>directory matches the package name, and automatically search it?
Isn't this the *right* thing to do, rather than trying to force
a particular development style on the whole community?
>Is there any reason javac doesn't default the extension to .java?
>Given that it won't accept anything else as valid, seems like it
>should be optional.
Or else accept arbitrary file extensions as being valid java source
files.
One could argue that the current behavior leaves the door open in
the future for choosing either path, and we don't have enough
experience yet to choose the correct path. So I guess I'm asking,
is the current behavior intentional for this reason, or is it an
oversight / something the java team hasn't gotten to yet? If the
latter, what is the intended behavior?
Gary Aitken garya@village.org
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