Re: [Java-gnome-developer] naming and distribution issues

[Tiago C. <cog...@li...>]

On Dom, 2003-11-16 at 10:47, Mark Howard wrote:
> [following on from thread re placement of jni libs and jar files.
> Original thread: 
> ]
> 
> In answer to the suggestion of having a java-gnome-conf script generated
> at install time so that users of the library can determine where jni
> files and jar files are located on the current distribution:
> 
> I think this is a bad idea - it adds unnecessary complexity. For
> example, all native applications (non-java) choose to place all
> libraries in /usr/lib -- they must have had similar discussions about
> this a long time ago. Why should java be different?
> I propose that jni libs should go in /usr/lib/jni (as is standard for
> Debian) and JVMs should be modified to look in /usr/lib/jni and
> /usr/local/lib/jni for jni libs. 
> 
IMO since we are using /usr/lib/jni for the java-to-native libs we
should use /usr/lib/java for the jars, come to think of it python .py,
.pyc and .pyo files go to /usr/lib/pythonX.X (at least in debian) so i
think that java could use the same approach, yet thinking in that are
already used we could also stick to /usr/share/java

> Debian-java have had similar discussions in the past (which I failed to
> follow since I had too much real work on), so I'm CC'ing there in the
> hope of advice. 
> 
> One question I do have with my proposal though is what happens if
> /usr/lib/jni has both libgnome-java0.8 and libgnome-java0.9 - How does
> the jvm currently choose?
Why not:
ln -s libgnome-java0.8.so libgnome-java.so

Tiago