geirm 01/12/09 10:01:02 Modified: . Tag: VEL_1_2_BRANCH README.txt Log: Notes on the two jars in the distro, w/ and w/o deps for convenience Revision Changes Path No revision No revision 1.8.2.3 +20 -10 jakarta-velocity/README.txt Index: README.txt =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-velocity/README.txt,v retrieving revision 1.8.2.2 retrieving revision 1.8.2.3 diff -u -r1.8.2.2 -r1.8.2.3 --- README.txt 2001/11/08 05:22:56 1.8.2.2 +++ README.txt 2001/12/09 18:01:01 1.8.2.3 @@ -28,23 +28,33 @@ The Java 2 SDK is required to build Velocity. For users that wish to use Log4J as the logging -system, version 1.1 of Log4J is required. +system, version 1.1 or newer of Log4J is required. BUILDING VELOCITY ----------------- In order to get started with Velocity, you may want to build it. If you are working with an offical Velocity release package, you will find -the Velocity jar in the top level directory. +two Velocity jars in the top level directory. -Note that starting with the version 1.2 release, this Velocity jar -does *NOT* contain any classes from external packages that it -depends on. - -Specifically, these are the Jakarta commons-collections, -Jakarta ORO, and Jakarta Avalon Logkit. These jars are included -in the distribution in build/lib, and further information can be -found in the developers guide. +PLEASE NOTE : Starting with the 1.2 release, we include two jars + with the distribution : + +1) velocity-1.2.jar : The Velocity jar that does not include +any external dependencies needed by Velocity, such as the +jakarta-commons-collection classes, Jakarta Avalon Logkit, or +Jakarta ORO. We do this to allow you to use whatever version of +collections, logkit, etc that you wish w/o fear of collision. +These jars are included in the distribution, in +the build/lib directory, or at the respective project sites. + +2) velocity-dep-1.2.jar : This is a Velocity jar that includes +all dependencies that were included with previous distribution +jars. It is intended as a convenience to allow you to drop +this 1.2 distribution in place of existing 1.1 distributions. + +Please see the developers guide for more information. + Building Velocity is easy. All components necessary to build Velocity are included, except for the Java 2 SDK and the fabulous Ant build tool
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