Re: [JJAR] Keeping it interesting :)

[Geir Magnusson Jr.]

Peter Donald wrote:
> 
> At 12:29  6/5/01 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> >We use it in velocity-land as a component - we have a build script that
> >sets everything up and then invokes ant - the only external dependency
> >is JAVA_HOME.  Works like a charm, and conceptually elegant for people
> >who don't have ant installed.  Since we use a normal build.xml, the 'ant
> >[<target>]' crowd (myself included) is happy as well.
> 
> In the future you wont even have to set JAVA_HOME ;)
> 

What you need to do is get ant fundamentals baked into the JDK - just
minimalist stuff so it could boostrap itself from a 'central services'
repository.  Rapture and joy...  bye bye classpath nonsense :)

geir

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Geir Magnusson Jr.                           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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