I've probably got this wrong - It wouldn't be the first time! As far as I understand it, if you download the Ant source you have to build it the first time using a two stage build process using two different shell scripts which are currently maintained to run under Windows and Unix. These scripts rely on the pre-existence of Java and the java compiler.
Why on earth are we using highly platform specific shell scripts to build a package that was created to allow cross platform builds to be platform non-specific? Why don't we insist that the CVS source includes a sufficiently up to date ant.jar (and required libraries) to be able to build itself using itself. This may make the source distribution larger but it seems to make a lot more sense to me at least! Any thoughts? Have I lost my trolley? Stuart.
