Re: [Jython-users] Interest in adding a "cp" option to the launch script?

[Leo S. M. <leo...@gm...>]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Avi Flax <av...@ar...> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 21:56, Zhang Cheng <czh...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > This enhancement is indeed useful to me as well. Would you please post
> > the diff of your launch script?
>
> Here you go, diff based on a Mac OS X install of 2.5b2:
>
>  99a100,106
> > # ----- BEGIN Copied from Groovy by Avi Flax -----
> > if [ "$1" = "-cp" -o "$1" = "-classpath" ] ; then
> >     CP=$CP:$2
> >     shift 2
> > fi
> > # ----- END Copied from Groovy by Avi Flax -----

AFAICS, if both CLASSPATH and -cp options are used, the patch will
"merge" both, with -cp taking precedence. This is different from what
java -cp does (i.e completely overriding CLASSPATH)

Is this intentional? How does it compare with what other JVM languages do?

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