James Duncan Davidson wrote: > On 12/6/00 1:48 AM, "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Search in your mail backlog for Jon's CJAN proposal, Subject was > > "[PROPOSAL] jar distribution system" 8-). > > Oh, I'm +1 for a CJAN. In fact, Pier and I talked for a couple of hours one > day about how to make it work well. > > But until CJAN is implemented, we need a workaround solution (iow, a hack) > that we can use now, not later. At least it would be nice. Of course, I > don't mind having the bootstrapper go off and suck in the xml classes -- it > works quite well really. :) >
There's one potential use case where doing it this way might bite: * Connect my laptop to the network * Do my "cvs update" of the Ant space but forget to bootstrap * Disconnect from the network and get on a plane * ./bootstrap.sh * oops ... no parser :-( Of course, it's shame on me for not remembering to bootstrap when I was connected, but it's gonna happen. > > -- > James Duncan Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > !try; do() Craig McClanahan
