RFC: Package structure of ant

[Barry Hawkins]

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Wolfgang Baer wrote:
[...]
> Another strcuture would be:
> 
> ant - scripts and core tasks jars
> ant-doc - javadoc and manual
> ant-optional - optional tasks jars
> 
> One problem in question is the java-policy. Is ant a program with its
> own auxiliary jars or is it a library (which would mean we have to
> name the packages libant... and could not include the core tasks jars
> in the ant binary package). If I understand the java policy correct.
[...]
Wolfgang,
    First of all, thanks for all your work on Ant's packaging.  Second,
I give a +1 for the second approach (shown above).  Very few separate
applications use Ant and its core tasks as a library; it's purpose it
building Java applications in an automated fashion.  As such, the binary
packaging strategy listed above makes the most sense to me.

Regards,
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Barry Hawkins
site: www.bytemason.org
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