Multilib Middle-Ground

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Fri May 2 20:47:14 UTC 2008


Le vendredi 02 mai 2008 à 14:46 -0500, Les Mikesell a écrit :

> The point is that for years fedora has had a scheme of package 
> requirements and no standard-compliant JVM that provided them.  And it 
> has a strange symlinked path scheme that needs to be fixed when 
> installing a standard JVM.

ROTFL SUN couldn't even keep a stable JVM naming, let alone a standard
path, or agree with the other proprietary guys on common conventions, so
don't invoque a "standard-compliant JVM" when this thing never existed.

An archive of all the SUN, IBM and BEA jvm releases is a baroque history
of inconsistent paths and name changes no sane third-party package could
ever depend on (and BTW paths that contradicted existing standards like
the FHS). What ISVs depend on is a fixed version that uses SUN's
conventions-of-the-day, which are anything but standard.

SUN's "standard" is JSR 277. It will happen in Java 1.7. Because of
market pressure (.Net, OSGi and Maven). Every Java antedating 1.7 is a
huge pile of paths, names and dependencies quirks, that were used to
justify the fat sums Enterprises paid SUN and its partners to smooth out
Java deployment. Why do you think Java has little life outside J2EE
servers? Because the J2EE server guys take care of the Java environment
setup the "standard" JVM makes such a mess of.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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