On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2013-12-23, <bugzi...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Do we want to distribute the installer systematically with new > > versions of Ant ? > > I wouldn't mind much if it can be created outside of a Mac. Then again > we don't ship Windows installers, Debian packages, RPMs ... either. > Currently it does depend on a closed-source tool that ships with OS X, but if we could replace that, the rest can run anywhere. The main reason I contributed the .pkg installer logic was that Apple previously shipped Ant with OS 10.8 and earlier, but they removed it in 10.9. I think a lot of OS X users have grown to depend on Ant being available, but I feel requiring them to install Homebrew or other heavyweight package management systems is a lot to ask. It'd be really nice if we could fill in the gaps Apple left behind in 10.9. Ben
