Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 9007 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2000 08:25:44 -0000 Received: from mercury.sun.com (192.9.25.1) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 19 Apr 2000 08:25:44 -0000 Received: from shorter.eng.sun.com ([129.144.251.35]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA16748 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:25:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eng.sun.com (hobo1.Japan.Sun.COM [129.158.86.101]) by shorter.eng.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with ESMTP id BAA02372 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <38FD6F6D.D03E2D89@eng.sun.com> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:33:49 -0700 From: James Duncan Davidson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: Ant Principles References: <013501bfa8d3$3fca1f80$65569e81@ionic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N > Right now I can see > > 1. JRE 1.1 or better. JDK 1.2 or better. It's out and final under Linux and I don't really care to wait another damn day before moving on with life. If everyone pussyfoots around and waits for somebody else to go to 1.2, then we'll never get there and we'll be trapped in this eternal loop of waiting. I was okay specing 1.1 before because of the lack of 1.2 for linux, but that argument is gone. But that's me.. :) As far as JDK rather than JRE, you point out later why. Also, I expect any sane developer to download the JDK. Ant isn't a replacement. > 2. A JAXP conforming XML parser. +1 > 3. Some supported means to compile Java source files - currently this > means either you have the sun.tools.javac package or Jikes. Right. .duncan