Hi Joseph, But if the user's just downloaded our source distribution, then they don't have a version of xerces on their system. They could do a build jars, modify their classpath then do a build all to get the docs etc., but that seems very complicated.
The tools distro is just there to help people build the source distro. The idea of a readme file is a very compelling one though; I'll make sure to put one in in the future. Cheers, Neil Neil Graham XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab Phone: 905-413-3519, T/L 969-3519 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph Kesselman/CAM/Lotus@Lotus on 10/30/2001 11:06:15 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: Xerces2-J Beta3 released The tools package is probably a good thing. Using an old-but-adequate version... I understnd the rationalle, but since it's specifically labelled as a Xerces tools package, I found the old version somewat surprising; I would have expected you to use whatever version of Xerces was already on the user's system. Making that a prerequisite would cut your download size still further, assuming that folks want xerces... If this is to support non-Xerces users of Ant, who otherwise wouldn't have Xerces present at all.... I can see the advantage of shipping a compact/reduced-function parser, but it's somewhat surprising and introdues the risk of having this come ahead of the "real" Xerces on their classpath. A readme file in that directory adapted from your note to me might be worthwhile, just so folks understand what you're doing and why, might be cheap insurance. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
