Re: JAVA_HOME policy

[Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:07:24PM +0000, Greg Wilkins wrote:
> Note that jasper2 no longer directly uses tools.jar, as it uses
> ant to do all it's compiling.  Thus whatever ant.jar needs to find
> tools.jar is what jasper and hence tomcat needs.
> 
> So hopefully the tools.jar dependancy will soon be history.
> Thus anything done to support it in the short term should clearly
> be of a temporary nature.

Huh?  Unless Ant is moving away from using tools.jar, how will the
problem go away?  It will just move to Ant.

I can't imagine that Ant will stop using tools.jar, because even
people who can tolerate waiting for Ant to start can't tolerate
waiting for javac to start.

Andrew