The help message for the –observables option currently states that the default value is ‘rt.classes’. When this is passed to dryad, it results in an error message. Users practically always need to pass this value to use dryad.

This could be fixed by either:
- Adding map(file-exists <+ try(xtc-find-silent)) to the option;
- or changing the help message to show the full path;
- or adding some form of boot-observables that are always included.

Submitted on 12 July 2006 at 17:22

DRY-238, lennartkats:

Ahum, “Users practically always need to pass this value to use dryad” should probably state “…with custom observables/jars”.

DRY-238, martin:

Hm, yes, this is very annoying. I’ll add rt.classes to the list by default and allow users to specific –boot-observables.

DRY-238, martin:

-O | –observable | –jar <file…> Use observable classes in
–boot-observable <file…> Use bootstrap observable classes in

[/pkg/dryad/2007-01-08-16-35/share/dryad/rt.classes]