On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:03:43PM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote: > -----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^).
Right. Full ACK. Cheers, Michael -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
