RFC: Package structure of ant

[Barry Hawkins]

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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.
> 
> Eclipse is the same. It has no need for the binary Ant wrapper.
> 
> 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^).

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