At 11:49 6/5/01 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>The one that stuck out though was that it was mentioned that it is
>intended that Ant is *installed*, rather than just tossing ant.jar into
>the classpath and using it.
The only reason to *intstall* it is to have ant in your PATH (unless of
course you are on win9x). Setting JAVA_HOME is something we still require
but that will go away in the future.
>I said then, and I say again, that I thought it was a horrible idea -
>ant is such a useful and beautiful thing, that caging it like that is
>just wrong :) Embedded make! it's great!
You and me both - my primary usage for ant is as an embedded task execution
engine ... now convincing the other committers that this is a good thing -
theres the challenge ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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