At 10:25 1/4/01 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>Vincent Massol wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "jakarta-commons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 2:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] build structure jakarta-commons
>>
>> > As I warned Geir I would :-), I've got a different set of preferences for
>> > build procedures to suggest. Anyone who has followed along on TOMCAT-DEV
>> > and GENERAL knows that I'm not a fan of checking JAR files in to the
>> > repositories. Having a common build/lib directory, as Geir suggests
>> > below, is better than having ant.jar checked into every single Commons
>> > package, but IMHO it will lead to conflicts over versions of the shared
>> > JARs (I need Ant 1.3, someone else needs Ant 1.2, and so on).
>> >
>> > [SNIP]
>> >
>> +1 on all that as this is also my belief and what I have also done in
>> Cactus.
>
>How many other jars do I have to go get to use it? I assume you managed
>to keep things limited to one version of Ant, so that's one. Then, I
>assume that I have to go find JUnit. That's two. What else?
stylebook ... and thus a particular version of xalan and xerces.
Cheers,
Pete
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