stevel 01/11/27 16:49:02 Modified: docs/manual install.html Log: PR 5025 : no MSJVM support. This is documented upfront. Also added some more stuff to the file while I was at it, including a list of platforms ant runs happily on. The implicit message there is 'if it doesnt work, it is your fault :-)' Revision Changes Path 1.18 +19 -4 jakarta-ant/docs/manual/install.html Index: install.html =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-ant/docs/manual/install.html,v retrieving revision 1.17 retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -r1.17 -r1.18 --- install.html 2001/10/30 10:05:33 1.17 +++ install.html 2001/11/28 00:49:02 1.18 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> -<title>Apache Ant User Manual</title> +<title>Installing Ant</title> </head> <body> @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ <hr> <h2><a name="sysrequirements">System Requirements</a></h2> +Ant has been used successfully on many platforms, including Linux, +commercial flavours of Unix such as Solaris and HP-UX, +Windows 9x and NT, Novell Netware 6 and MacOS X. <p> To build and use Ant, you must have a JAXP-compliant XML parser installed and available on your classpath.</p> @@ -52,10 +55,17 @@ <p> For the current version of Ant, you will also need a JDK installed on -your system, version 1.1 or later. A future version of Ant will require -JDK 1.2 or later. +your system, version 1.1 or later. Some tasks work better on post-1.1 systems; +some tasks only work on Java 1.2 and successors. +A future version of Ant -Ant 2.0- will require JDK 1.2 or later, though +Ant 1.x strives to retain 1.1 compatibility. +</p><p> +<strong>Note: </strong>The Microsoft JVM/JDK is not adequate on its own, although the MS +compiler is supported. </p> - +<p> +<strong>Note #2: </strong>If a JDK is not present, only the JRE runtime, then many tasks will not work. +</p> <hr> <h2><a name="installing">Installing Ant</a></h2> <p>The binary distribution of Ant consists of three directories: @@ -164,6 +174,11 @@ this is set by the Ant scripts to the value of the ANT_HOME environment variable.</li> </ul> +The supplied ant shell scripts all support an <tt>ANT_OPTS</tt> +environment variable which can be used to supply extra options +to ant. Some of the scripts also read in an extra script stored +in the users home directory, which can be used to set such options. Look +at the source for your platform's invocation script for details. <hr> <h2><a name="buildingant">Building Ant</a></h2>
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