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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