Re: Should I add tools.jar to my internal repo?

2012-12-23 Thread Manfred Moser
I agree with the rest of you all. Do not add it to the repo! In fact I consider any project that has a dependency to tools.jar as broken. Not only does tools.jar have different content depending on the version of the jdk/jre but in fact on some it does not even exist. There is no such thing as a t

Re: Should I add tools.jar to my internal repo?

2012-12-23 Thread Anders Hammar
Thanks! I believe I have to look into this project that has a dependency to tools.jar. Most likely they should execute on a JDK (and not a JRE) instead of bundling the tools jar. /Anders On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > 1. As Jeff says, it won't work. > > 2. It violat

Re: Should I add tools.jar to my internal repo?

2012-12-23 Thread Benson Margulies
1. As Jeff says, it won't work. 2. It violates the terms of the JDK license, most likely. On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Jeff MAURY wrote: > I don't think you should as there are probably some differences between > versions of the JDK > > Regards > Jeff MAURY > > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at

Re: Should I add tools.jar to my internal repo?

2012-12-23 Thread Jeff MAURY
I don't think you should as there are probably some differences between versions of the JDK Regards Jeff MAURY On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Anders Hammar wrote: > So far I've managed the few situations where tools.jar (included in the > JDK) is needed by using the deprecated system scope