SPECS: jakarta-ant.spec - release 2 - added some BRs

Jan Rekorajski baggins at sith.mimuw.edu.pl
Tue Dec 14 20:11:04 CET 2004


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Paweł Sakowski wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 13:11 +0000, baggins wrote:
> > Author: baggins                      Date: Tue Dec 14 13:11:56 2004 GMT
> > Module: SPECS                         Tag: HEAD
> > ---- Log message:
> > - release 2
> > - added some BRs
> > [...]
> > +BuildRequires:	jakarta-regexp >= 1.3
> > +BuildRequires:	jakarta-oro >= 2.0.7
> > +[...and many more...]
> 
> Are you sure about it?

Yes. See http://ant.apache.org/ for details.

> 1. It used to build without them (is new functionality available if
> built with these packages available?)

It will build without them but you get empty jars (only MANIFEST inside).
So if you want anything more than basic functionality (and most of us do)
you need those BRs. Just to give you an example jakarta-commons-net
won't build with basic ant, it needs ant-junit.jar with something inside ;)

> 2. jakarta-oro (and others) BR jakarta-ant. Some bootstrap procedure
> would be necessary to build the jakarta suite from scratch.

Yes. I know this sucks.

Janek
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