KPathSea bindings for Java

Norman Gray gray at nxg.name
Tue Jul 9 14:06:04 CEST 2024


Erik, hello.

(parenthetically, to save Karl's blushes)

On 9 Jul 2024, at 12:42, Erik Nijenhuis wrote:

> On Mon, 2024-07-08 at 16:40 -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>> Maybe "jpathsea" would be a more fun name :)?
>> (Not that I have anything against jkpathsea which is, admittedly, more
>> logical.)
> Well, I've just consulted the manual, but it's still a mystery to me what the
> 'k' stands for in kpathsea. Is it like kernel-based as in Kernel-based Virtual
> Machine (KVM)?

...it stands for 'Karl', as in 'Karl's path searching algorithm'

Best wishes,

Norman


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