There are occasions where plugins require jar files added to jEdit's classpath. The
normal jEdit JarClassloader does not suffice in these circumstances as these jars
need to be a part of the System classloader.
To fix this jEdit should have a well known location where jar files can be added,
and have them be part of jEdit's system classloader. This can be a /lib, or /shared
directory under the jEdit installation directory, or under the jEdit settings directory.
It would be nice if there was an interface within jEdit to install jars into this
directory - a restart of jEdit would be OK in my opinion. There should be some way
of doing this programmatically as well - perhaps jEdit.getSharedLibDirectory(). A
plugin should be able to take jars from it's package and install them into this directory
and ask the user to restart jEdit.
| Submitted | elberry - 2010-02-02 00:30:24 | Assigned | |
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| Priority | 5 | Labels | core |
| Status | open | Group | None |
| Resolution | None |