Given that ant is (or is becoming) the defacto standard for building java apps I am reluctant to remove it. A number of projects simply include the ant jar in the download.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Barry Lind Sent: October 17, 2001 4:23 PM To: Marko Kreen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JDBC] [PATCHES] Ant configuration I don't like this patch. If anything I think we should remove the dependency on ANT, not remove the dependency on make. By requiring ANT, we provide yet another hurdle for someone wanting to use JDBC with postgres. I would prefer that the build environment be the same for the database as for the jdbc code. Anything that makes it more difficult to download the source and get going with it is a negative in my opinion. And from my perspective requiring the download of an additional tool (ANT in this case) makes it more difficult. I already know that some binary distributions of postgres do not include JDBC simply because it is too complex to get ANT installed in their build environment. (complex perhaps isn't the right word, but it is more work than they are willing to put in for a small feature of postgres). thanks, --Barry Marko Kreen wrote: > I dusted a old patch that integrates Ant better with autoconf. It > creates a file src/ant.cfg.in to pass autoconf parameters to Ant. Now > Ant can be used directly, without going through Makefile. > > 'install.directory' is still passed in Makefile to keep DESTDIR > working. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
