On tor, 2003-12-11 at 16:42, Clay Leeds wrote: > I don't think ant should be removed from the maintenance branch. > Granted, users of HEAD should be adept enough to install and configure > ANT, but I think it is more important to make at least the > "maintenance" branch of FOP easy to use, than it is to encourage them > to install and configure ant. Right now, all you need to run FOP is > Java 1.2+. Saddling users with more requirements probably won't > "encourage" new users. > > One of the great things I love about fop-0.20.5, is that it includes > everything I need to run it (xalan, xerces, etc.). It even includes a > xalan.bat script (not included with xalan), which one of my colleagues > used to transform an XML file with XSL. > > I believe that one of the goals for FOP is to get more fop-users (even > if they're not going to be fop-devs). > > Web Maestro Clay > > p.s. I guess this means I get to add ant to my list of tools in my > toolbox... :-)
I absolutely agree, you will loose potential fop-devs. Do NOT remove ant/build. I just recently discovered the easy all-in-one power of the FOP src package. Download, unpack, fiddle with some .java, and run build.sh! I know nothing about the use of ant, and would have had to do some surfing before even getting to the point of doing a recompile. Well I might benefit from this in other cases, but the word "build" tell a lot more about the job than "ant", and build.sh has worked very well for me. I'm sure there is a lot of other things that can be done, to cure whatever fired this idea. -- /Reiche
