> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:23:13PM -0700, Barry Lind wrote: > > 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 have no strong feelings about current situation, I simply made > it more flexible. About changing it, you should consult JDBC > maintainers first, maybe they have some good reason why its > so...
Barry and Dave are the jdbc maintainers now and I think there is general consensus that we want to get away from Ant if possible. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
