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I'm no fan of Java, but in this case I have to say I don't have much sympathy for Bray. Yes, running Java from the command line is a huge pain, especially if yo
by maxlybbert 12y ago
I'm no fan of Java, but in this case I have to say I don't have much sympathy for Bray. Yes, running Java from the command line is a huge pain, especially if you haven't done it in ten years. Yes, it should be possible. But it can't be intuitive to everybody because people have conflicting ideas of what the intuitive thing would be. Yes, you will have to run "java -help" to figure it out, or package everything in a .jar file.
- benjaminwootton 12y agoEvery programming environment needs to know where to find it's libraries but it's not exactly rocket science - CLASSPATH, GEM_PATH, LOAD_PATH, GO_PATH etc. Just takes a few minutes to figure it out each time.