Hello. I find it very useful to creat /usr/bin/hsqldb-databasemanager with the following content right after having installed dev-db/hsqldb: #!/bin/sh pkgs=`java-config --list-available-packages | awk '/^\[jdbc/ {ORS=","; print $1;} END {ORS=""; print "hsqldb";}' | tr -d '[]'` java -cp `java-config --classpath $pkgs` org.hsqldb.util.DatabaseManagerSwing reason: 1) user probably installed hsqldb in order to get a generic GUI tool to access other databases. However it wouldn't be easy to get it running without having finished the gentoo guide for Java and knows how to collect the classpath for jdbcs. Me for example spent a whole day to get to the point I can run DatabaseManagerSwing access my MySQL + PostSQL db. 2) finding the classpath for jdbc-libraries require distribution-specific knowledge, which means even if hsqldb development team wished to have a shortcut commandline to launch their GUI, they couldn't effectively write one that uses jdbc drivers on the target machine, which push the task to write such handy script to the porter of each distribution. P.S. the awt-based interface for HSQL Database Manager presented several problem due to the awt widget-set doesn't have a tabe widget to hold the result of SQL queries. I suffered these problems before I switch to the Swing version, but I forgot what problem there had been with awt, only remember there are some. Hence I am defaulting to use swing version in the above script.
I forgot to mention the request itself. My reuqest is to have /usr/bin/hsqldb-databasemanager automatically created by the ebuilds during emerge.
No, we don't add one-off, personal bash scripts to the Portage tree. Get back to us with something that has a bit more "consistency" and we might consider it. Closing this bug.
