Jon, > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Because cygwin passes a unix classpath (colon separated) to > a win32 tool > > (javac) which doesn't like it (it want semi-colon > separated). That is why > > the compile cannot find the BuildException class which is > part of the ant > > source. > > > > Conor > > Works fine for me with Turbine (note that by default it will > attempt to find > the servlet.jar within > ../jakarta-servletapi/lib/servlet.jar), Regexp, ECS, > Velocity, Village... >
Interestingly, this is because they use ant :-) Ant translates the path given to it into something reasonable for the JVM under which it is running. When Ant is being bootstrapped, it does not have yet have that facility available. By bootstrapping, here I mean bulding ant purely from its source. We always use ant to build ant (once it has been bootstrapped). By Peter's definition therefore, ant always bootstraps itself :-) I think being able to bootstrap from source is an important capability which should be retained. (i.e. no need for ant.jar to build ant.jar) > Oh wait...I actually care about the fact that novice > developers want to > compile from source code. > I care too :-) You have championed jars in CVS and used Turbine as an example. Turbine, however, chooses to assume a colocated checkout for servlet.jar. (I couldn't find anything in the readme about that, though). Would you support such an approach for ant too? Conor
