Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy
Hi Mark,
--- Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote:
>
> > [..] ANT_BUILD_COMPILER with the short-name or the full qualified
> > classname of the java compiler [..]
> >
> > Also, for the default environemt, it needs to include the tools.jar.
>
> Yuck. What does this tools.jar provide?
nothing in the API spec. Some badly written packages use it to access internal
classes of Sun's implementation, even though Sun tells them not to. And then
the cry goes to free VMs to support such braindead code, since everyone (i.e.
ant) is doing it. ;)
cheers,
dalibor topic
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