Peter Donald wrote:
>
> At 11:49 6/5/01 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> >The one that stuck out though was that it was mentioned that it is
> >intended that Ant is *installed*, rather than just tossing ant.jar into
> >the classpath and using it.
>
> The only reason to *intstall* it is to have ant in your PATH (unless of
> course you are on win9x). Setting JAVA_HOME is something we still require
> but that will go away in the future.
That' wasn't how it was presented. I realize that i can install by
adding to PATH and such, but I was so impressed with it's use as an
embedded tool in a build environment.
>
> >I said then, and I say again, that I thought it was a horrible idea -
> >ant is such a useful and beautiful thing, that caging it like that is
> >just wrong :) Embedded make! it's great!
>
> You and me both - my primary usage for ant is as an embedded task execution
> engine ... now convincing the other committers that this is a good thing -
> theres the challenge ;)
Definitely. I'll help if I can .
geir
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