----- Original Message ----- From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > We should decide before this release goes out whether we wish to publish an Ant > specific RPM or to continue to have RPMs built by Henri Gomez. > > When I got the RPM building to work, my goal was to allow us to build a complete > distribution including the RPMs. It meant that the RPM build would be in sync > with the other distributions. Previously the RPMs were built quite differently, > using Jikes, not building the full optional jar, etc. > > The RPMs that are currently built as part of the Ant build consider Ant in > isolation. They just put Ant somewhere sensible and what you get is pretty much > what you would get if you were to unzip a zip distribution. Henri's RPMs, OTOH, > are built as part of the larger java RPM project. There are richer dependencies > (JAXP is a dependency, IIRC), a separate Ant launch script, no parser jars > included, documentation is somewhere else, etc. > > Thoughts? I guess it would be neat if all that could somehow become part of our distribution build process so that a single chap can make the whole distro - but till then, I guess RPM users would now have been used to all these sophisticated features Henri has provided in the past - so, we would need his help for this release as well?? btw, he isn't subscribed to ant-dev, is he? I mean, would I have to let him know off-line about our release plans? > > Conor > Cheers, Magesh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
