Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 8659 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2001 01:05:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 28 Nov 2001 01:05:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 28630 invoked by uid 97); 28 Nov 2001 01:05:56 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 28581 invoked by uid 97); 28 Nov 2001 01:05:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 28570 invoked by uid 97); 28 Nov 2001 01:05:55 -0000 Date: 28 Nov 2001 00:49:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20011128004902.89014.qmail@icarus.apache.org> From: stevel@apache.org To: jakarta-ant-cvs@apache.org Subject: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/docs/manual install.html X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N stevel 01/11/27 16:49:02 Modified: docs/manual install.html Log: PR 5025 : no MSJVM support. This is documented upfront. Also added some more stuff to the file while I was at it, including a list of platforms ant runs happily on. The implicit message there is 'if it doesnt work, it is your fault :-)' Revision Changes Path 1.18 +19 -4 jakarta-ant/docs/manual/install.html Index: install.html =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-ant/docs/manual/install.html,v retrieving revision 1.17 retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -r1.17 -r1.18 --- install.html 2001/10/30 10:05:33 1.17 +++ install.html 2001/11/28 00:49:02 1.18 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -Apache Ant User Manual +Installing Ant @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@

System Requirements

+Ant has been used successfully on many platforms, including Linux, +commercial flavours of Unix such as Solaris and HP-UX, +Windows 9x and NT, Novell Netware 6 and MacOS X.

To build and use Ant, you must have a JAXP-compliant XML parser installed and available on your classpath.

@@ -52,10 +55,17 @@

For the current version of Ant, you will also need a JDK installed on -your system, version 1.1 or later. A future version of Ant will require -JDK 1.2 or later. +your system, version 1.1 or later. Some tasks work better on post-1.1 systems; +some tasks only work on Java 1.2 and successors. +A future version of Ant -Ant 2.0- will require JDK 1.2 or later, though +Ant 1.x strives to retain 1.1 compatibility. +

+Note: The Microsoft JVM/JDK is not adequate on its own, although the MS +compiler is supported.

- +

+Note #2: If a JDK is not present, only the JRE runtime, then many tasks will not work. +

Installing Ant

The binary distribution of Ant consists of three directories: @@ -164,6 +174,11 @@ this is set by the Ant scripts to the value of the ANT_HOME environment variable. +The supplied ant shell scripts all support an ANT_OPTS +environment variable which can be used to supply extra options +to ant. Some of the scripts also read in an extra script stored +in the users home directory, which can be used to set such options. Look +at the source for your platform's invocation script for details.

Building Ant

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