Steve Loughran wrote:
> Steve Cohen wrote:
>
>> There have been some comments on the jpackage.org mailing list to the
>> effect that our manual doesn't really have correct installation
>> instructions for that environment, although elsewhere on our site we
>> do link to them.
>>
>> I have rewritten the install manual page to add this content, but
>> rather than commit it and then draw comments, I decided to post it on
>> my own site temporarily for comment. If there is none, I'll just
>> commit it.
>
I had a quick read of the section - looks good. Perhaps you could mention
) that if ant has been installed by jpackage (at least the current
versions), the env
variable ANT_HOME will be ignored,
) and that one can use the --noconfig
switch to ignore the jpackage installation.
Peter
>>
>
> It's nice.
>
> I'm thinking of adding fetch.xml to the end user distro, as it can
> then pick up many of the optional extra jar files (the OSS ones). It
> needs tweaking to autoretrieve the maven task to do the downloads,
> which leads to a problem: the version of that task when ant1.7 ships
> will be less than the latest version by the end of the lifetime of the
> tool. Either we do hard code a version# into a shipped property file,
> or we provide some way of getting the latest version (property url off
> the ant site to get the list of latest JARS for that version, perhaps)
>
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