properties files

Sat Jun 21 10:16:00 GMT 2003

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Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 02:39 schrieb Bryce McKinlay:
> On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:31 AM, Michael Koch wrote:
> > I would like to know what is the plan where to put properties
> > files in libgcj source tree and installation tree ?
> >
> > I would like to introduce libjava/properties and put all
> > properties files there with a Makefile.am which installs them in
> > the correct directories.
>> I would prefer to put .properties files in the source directory to
> which they relate. For example, it seems logical to put
> logging.properties in java/util/logging.
>> > Is it a good idea to put them all into $prefix/share/java ? This
> > way they would all be in one directory.
>> Currently we install a couple of policy files for java.security
> into $prefix/lib/security, but $prefix/share/java seems a more
> appropriate location. I agree that it doesn't make much sense to
> put something like logging.properties in libgcj.so, however we
> should ensure that all classes which use properties files also have
> reasonable defaults, in case the properties file does not exist at
> runtime.

After looking into JRE SUN puts the property files into $prefix/lib 
which is really weird for LSB conformant systems.
Is everybody happy when we use $prefix/share/java ?
Michael
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