KPathSea bindings for Java

[Norbert Preining]

On Tue, 09 Jul 2024, Erik Nijenhuis wrote:
> 'k' stands for in kpathsea. Is it like kernel-based as in Kernel-based Virtual

'k' as in 'Karl' ;-)

> tlcockpit, however, seems to use mostly other utilities, like mktexlsr or
> fmtutil. It only uses kpathsea once with var_value in TlmgrProcess.

Yes, it is a tlmgr frontend and needs practically no information from
kpathsea.

> So, if both jars and libs can be found, then the only requirement for users is
> to have their JAVA_HOME setup properly, since that isn't shipped by TeX Live as
> far as I can remember. That would make it somewhat Java-friendly I suppose.

Yes, for tlcockpit I ship a script that does the necessary java cmdline
magic.

Best regards

Norbert

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