Re: [Jython-dev] Cache dir

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[Romain Guy]

>    Also is there a way to retrieve the interpreter package managers so that
>I could manually add my JARs to the cache (it would then let me use Jython
>with my app in a webstart release).

[Robert W. Bill]

>sys.add_extdirs(directoryContainingYourJars) is the easy way.

A little typo: it's sys.add_extdir(..).

>For individual jars, you abuse the "public" status of packageManager and
>addJar with the following (untested, sorry):
>
>PySystemState sys = Py.getSystemState();
>sys.packageManager.addJar("/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.3/lib/parser.jar");

The addJar() will not cache the result. And, yes it is a bit of an abuse
because packagemanager methods is not part of the stable public API.

If there is a wish for this, we should add another method to sys:

   sys.add_jar("/path/to/file.jar")

Can anyone come up with a better name since the .jar can also be a .zip
file?

regards,
finn