some questions about Java ports

[Greg Lewis]

Hi Mikhail,

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:35:33PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > Now there are other selection criteria (native or not, vendor), so it
> > doesn't make sense to arbitrarily pick one selection criterion (version) and
> > mix it with the simple yes/no of whether the port uses Java or not.
> 
> Why not continue mixing it? The yes/no is, literally, a one-bit value, but 
> many bytes are used to store it.

You appear to be asking me the same question that my previous quoted reply
covered.

> > Despite that, the old way of doing things does work, you'll just get hate
> > mail from Herve and I if you commit a new port that uses it ;-).
> 
> I'll look forward to that. Thanks...

Herve in particular has spent a lot of time both documenting how this works
and converting ports from using the deprecated syntax to using the newly
supported syntax.  Adding a new port that uses the deprecated syntax just
makes our life harder if there is a bsd.java.mk 3.0 (which will remove that
syntax altogether).

> P.S. Can you, please, look into the JAVA_HOME not being appended to MAKE_ENV 
> properly? Thanks!

Its on my TODO list :).

-- 
Greg Lewis                          Email   : glewis at eyesbeyond.com
Eyes Beyond                         Web     : http://www.eyesbeyond.com
Information Technology              FreeBSD : glewis at FreeBSD.org