Re: Request go ahead for structural changes in CVS

[Craig R. McClanahan]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Incze Lajos wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 08:16:46PM +0100, Incze Lajos wrote:
> 
> > I can cause some difficulties to ant's RPM-distribution-linux-users as it's
> > directory scheme follows the some Linux file system standards, not the
> > original ant distribution. (On the other hand it can be repaired with some
> > symlinks. So, at least a warning would be nice. E.g. the ant binary structure
> > is this one:
> > 
> 
> Terrible copy/paste (1st line is missing):
> /usr/bin/ant
> > /usr/doc/ant-1.2
> > /usr/doc/ant-1.2/LICENSE
> > /usr/doc/ant-1.2/README
> > /usr/doc/ant-1.2/TODO
> > /usr/doc/ant-1.2/WHATSNEW
> > /usr/share/ant/bin/antRun
> > /usr/share/java/ant.jar
> > /usr/share/java/jaxp.jar
> > /usr/share/java/optional.jar
> > /usr/share/java/parser.jar)
> >                                                            incze
> 

If we impose on the developer only that he has the right "ant" or
"ant.bat" script available in his or her PATH, do we care anything about
Ant's internal organization?  It seems to me that the Ant environment
should take care of finding its own pieces.

Craig