RE: [Plplot-devel] Java install questions

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> [...] However, your
> proposal doesn't seem right to me either, since it seems kludgy to have
> to have two additions to classpath to use the java stuff.  Maybe you
> could take the position that you only need the first one for normal
> client codes, and the second one is just to reach the PLplot Java
> demos,

yes.  Also, I was quite happy to see that your java package structure still
worked fine if you assembled the bits and pieces from separate directory
trees with the appropriate colon-separated list of directories in CLASSPATH.
Of course, just because something is possible doesn't mean you have to do it
so see below.

> but to me it makes more sense to have one classpath component
> which reaches all things plplot/java.

OK.  I will go along with this decision.

> Personally, I'd just leave it alone for now, figuring that it wil
> lhave to change later once we learn the ways of upscale Java packagers
> well enough to follow suit fashionably.

OK, to be revisited later when one of us knows more about jar files, etc.

You didn't answer my question about the sources.  Currently there are no
java sources anywhere in the install directory tree.  I believe at least the
java example sources should be there (by analogy with the source code that
is installed for the other examples). Assuming you agree on the examples, do
you also want the core sources installed?

Alan