Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 30770 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2000 18:00:12 -0000 Received: from sun.syzygy.net (195.26.96.2) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 14 Dec 2000 18:00:12 -0000 Received: from coltrane.bitBull.com (energy.syzygy.co.uk [195.26.97.140]) by sun.syzygy.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA11319 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:59:29 GMT Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001214175758.0203e698@pop3.demon.co.uk> X-Sender: kief_bitbull@kief.demon.co.uk@pop3.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:59:24 +0000 To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org From: Kief Morris Subject: Re: [tomcat-4.0] building is hard In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Stuart Roebuck typed the following on 16:41 14/12/2000 +0000 >On Thursday, December 14, 2000, at 09:44 AM, Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: >> Someone (me! :) proposed to do as they do in XML land with the Xerces >> project. They distribute a simple "xerces-tools..." JAR containing all >> libraries required for the build. What do you think? Would it be a good idea >> to do the same for Tomcat? I'd rather not check in JARs in the CVS, but I >> believe that a single big zip with all libraries would be great... Maybe as an option, but it should also be easy to build using libraries you already have installed. Seems silly to download a separate copy of ant, xml parser, etc. for each project. Kief --- bitBull makes the Internet bite: http://www.bitBull.com/demos/