Robert wrote:

> > Do you think it is okay to manually edit the various build scripts to
> > make them build as desired and then just record what was edited in the
> > SPKG.txt file?
>
> The route we have traditionally gone down is to place patch files in
> a "patches" directory and then apply them at compile time to whatever
> needs to be changed.

Okay, I will do this then.



> Due to the circular nature of building ant, let us assume as a first
> task that users have a (recent) JDK + ant. Hopefully some of the
> dependancies can be mitigated if we avoid supporting really old
> version of java.

Okay.



> If it looks like there are going to be several java-based spkg's in
> Sage, then I'd suggest making a java-deps package with the "common"
> ones, completely self-contained and build-able from source with the
> above. The jars would be placed in $SAGE_ROOT/local/java, and used/
> copied from there to the appropriate places by the jmol (and other
> spkg) build scripts.

For now then I will keep all dependencies inside the jmol-src spkg.

Ted

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