At 01:08 6/7/00 -0700, you wrote: >I had to go and install jikes to be able to get a compilation going. This >worked, but I do not think I can conviced poeple here that they need to >install a different compiler just to get ant to work correctly.
well it is to be expected when you use a beta platform with many "features" and besides jikes is a way better compiler :P >Finally, does any one know the reason why ant's binaries do not ship with >its own copies of JAXP binaries in its lib directory? I see no reason why we >need to go to javasoft and download JAXP and pollute our classpath. Notice >that we do not need to pollute it for ANT, but just for JAXP. Is there any >issue on shipping binaries for JAXP? well you can also download xerces.jar from apache website (at least the CVS version works :P). So that may be an option. Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want | | to test a man's character, give him power." | | -Abraham Lincoln | *------------------------------------------------------*
