java again really
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 3 18:01:06 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>> The real solution would be for Sun to supply a well-integrated
>> RHEL/Fedora RPM, but apparently the effort to make that happen hasn't
>> met with much success.
>
> Is any of that effort on the record? I can see why Sun might prefer a
> location that is not linux-specific so documentation about setting PATH,
> CLASSPATH, etc. would be more portable, and why they might want the
> install locations to be more obvious than the fedora/RH scheme for cases
> where different user/applications on the same machine need to use
> different jvm versions instead of taking the default, but I'd like to
> know the official reason.
The reason is because they didn't have any resources alloted to fix this
problem until recently and they didn't have a good model to accept other
community contributions. These are expected to be fixed shortly.
http://lwn.net/Articles/259364/
Rahul
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