-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jerry Haltom wrote: > Almost every package I have seen uses ant as a lib. In fact, name on > that doesn't? > > The build scripts for most packages invoke the VM and point it to the > Ant library. They don't invoke the Ant binary wrapper. > > Eclipse is the same. It has no need for the binary Ant wrapper. > > Just pointing this out. [...] While I agree that technically Ant is invoked as a collection of Java classes that could be considered a library in the technical sense, we are always invoking the main classes that allow it to function as a build tool, like make. Users would view Ant logically in the same way they view make; a build tool. Very few users of Debian will be invoking ant the way we do as package maintainers - except for the really sick ones 8^).
- -- Barry Hawkins site: www.bytemason.org weblog: www.yepthatsme.com Registered Linux User #368650 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDJzCfHuKcDICy0QoRAnVsAJ9yysQ6JNq2DQI5wafFAjd09weXwgCgh476 neNezliTW9ZBu158cOBCizs= =tU0Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
