On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 08:20 +0100, Rakesh wrote: > [ . . . ] > > > 2. If unhappy with the default versions of apps in the repository I > > have to do manual installs - latest version of ant or ruby for example > > were nightmares to upgrade. > > No idea about Ruby, but installing the latest Ant on Debian Testing (and > hence Debian anything and Ubuntu anything) is really straightforward and > about a 2 minute task. On the other hand 1.8.2 is the standard on > Debian Testing so no need for a manual install. > I use scripts for installing grails, ants, glassfish etc. They were created as I was tired of setting version X from a repo again and again. Now it's become my default way of setting up java environment. I like it, works for me perfectly :-) -- ags -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
