Hi all, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Michael Koch wrote: > >>>On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:03:43PM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote: >>> >>>>Jerry Haltom wrote: >>>> >>>>>Almost every package I have seen uses ant as a lib. >>>>>In fact, name on that doesn't? >>>>>The build scripts for most packages invoke the VM and point >>>>>it to the Ant library. They don't invoke the Ant binary wrapper. > > > You are talking about CDBS, aren't you? If ant was in main at the time > Stefan Gybas wrote the cdbs rules for ant, I don't think he would call > ant that way but he would have use the launcher script (sorry for the > english grammar, I think I messed up;-)) > > >>>>>Eclipse is the same. It has no need for the binary Ant wrapper. > > > Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Eclipse calls the main ant launcher > class, not the *bash* wrapper script > > >>>>>Just pointing this out. >>>> >>>>[...] >>>>While I agree that technically Ant is invoked as a collection of Java >>>>classes that could be considered a library in the technical sense, we >>>>are always invoking the main classes that allow it to function as a >>>>build tool, like make. Users would view Ant logically in the same way >>>>they view make; a build tool. Very few users of Debian will be invoking >>>>ant the way we do as package maintainers - except for the really sick >>>>ones 8^). > > > Barry I totally agrre > > >>>Right. Full ACK. > > > And I see Michael too ;-) >
As most of the active pkg-java maintainers have aggreed to the second approach: ant - scripts and core tasks ant-doc - javadoc and manuals ant-optional - optional tasks I will prepare such a package for further discussion and then come back to you with a download location for review ... Wolfgang _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
