RFC: Package structure of ant

[Michael Koch]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:03:43PM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote:
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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^).

Right. Full ACK.


Cheers,
Michael
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