[indiana-discuss] [Fwd: [caiman-discuss] contents for slim install]

[elw at stderr.org]

> The biggest problem is that the JOGL community seems to think that JOGL 
> libraries (jars) should be installed per-user or per-project rather than 
> system-wide.  This is difficult for someone putting together a 
> distribution targeting development.

Yes, this is pretty poor practice for software distribution.  It seems to 
be relatively common among a subset of Java developers, I think largely 
because there are some dependency mechanisms missing from available Java 
tools that should have long ago been provided. :-)

There's also, perhaps, some energy being lent by the "write once, run 
anywhere" desires folks have -- the way to 'get that', in some cases, is 
to bundle everything you think people might need, rather than just the 
class files that make up the application itself.

--e