I'll keep this stuff in mind, but for the time being I'm concentrating on
other things so I don't see this as a high priority.
Feel free to send me patches though ;o)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 05 February 2001 23:54
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-alexandria/src/scripts alexandria.bat
on 2/5/01 3:40 PM, "Jeff Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Ok, I'm not sure that I like this at all...
>>
>> #1. You are assuming that ant.bat is installed in the classpath.
>
> I don't really see a problem with this no one ever worries about people
not
> having make in there path, although I could check to see if ANT_HOME is
set
> first before going for the path.
Actually, you are 100% wrong here. This was a MAJOR issue with people when I
was doing the JServ project. We placed "You need GNUmake" into the INSTALL
document and various FAQ's in many places and people still didn't get it
right. Not until I put it into the actual configure script to check for
GNUmake and give directions on how they could solve their problem did people
finally get a clue.
Not only that, but all of the Jakarta projects that I work with and build on
a regular basis do not require that Ant be in the classpath. The only
requirement is to have JAVA_HOME defined properly.
> I'm not assuming that castor is in the lib directory, I know it's in the
lib
> directory, it's part of the build
You are missing the point. What if I put a different version of castor in
the lib directory? Your system should be able to handle that...as well as
the fact that it doesn't handle upgrades...you are going to have to edit
that file every time you upgrade castor. Just another thing to forget to
do...
I'm not sure why you are arguing for doing it the hard way when easier ways
exist.
> Actually Alexandria.jar and castor are required for running Ant as the JXR
> and change log tasks use them. Probably don't need xalan and xerces, I'll
> look into it. It's a very quick port from the bash version and I'm sure I
> had a reason for it all in there at one point.
Again, you are missing the point. My complaint is with the location that you
are specifying the .jar files, not with the fact that you are specifying
them.
-jon
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