I put them in there a couple of months ago. It seemed the less of two evils. Plus I couldn't easily imagine the situation where having it in the distribution would cause somebody grief.
I know there was some talk about it a few times on the developer's list. Once we decided it would be a good idea to put them in the distribution and then another time we thought it wouldn't be such a good idea. I added them because it seemed that it was very unlikely to cause anybody problems having it in the distribution, but on the other hand not having it could cause problems for some users. For example: - it's one less property that a new user needs to setup for doing a build - it's one less thing that a new user needs to download - ant 1.5.2 had a serious bug with some of its file zipping tasks - some other projects, such as JBoss, JAXB, ..., include ant in their source distributions - technically speaking we can only really guarantee that AndroMDA works with the version of ANT against which it was compiled and tested > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthias > Bohlen > Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 7:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Andromda-devel] ant.jar / optional.jar > > > Hi folks, > > our distribution contains ant.jar and optional.jar in the > andromda-core/lib/ directory. Does anyone know why? I think, we should > remove them because they may create version conflicts, depending on > which version of "ant" our users have. > > Thoughts? > Matthias > > --- > > Matthias Bohlen > "Consulting that helps project teams to succeed..." > http://www.mbohlen.de/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft > Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. > Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. > www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 > _______________________________________________ > Andromda-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Andromda-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-devel
