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Re: Properties
- To: Anthony Green <green@cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Properties
- From: Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:15:39 -0700
- Cc: java-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Reply-To: Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.berkeley.edu>
> The trick with 3 is to come up with some standard variable names.
> Unfortunately, you can't use `.' in environment variables on some
> systems. What to do? Replace them with `_' so, maybe, GCJ_java_home
> maps to java.home?
How about a single env var which has the format
property.name=value property.name=value ...
so we can avoid cluttering the env var namespace? Call it GCJ_PROPERTIES.
Matt Welsh