Re: [PROPOSAL] dh_ant

[Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:13:47PM +0200, Stefan Gybas wrote:
> That's exactly the purpose. A build dependency for a JVM should be 
> specific, see http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/building.html for the 
> reasons.

You might want official builds to always use the same compiler, but
there's no reason not to make it convenient for others to use their
preferred compiler.  Especially when the preferred compiler is
proprietary.  We should be moving away from hard-coding knowledge
about the compiler and its implementation details (like JAVA_HOME).

Andrew