Re: JAVA_HOME and ant (was: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath)
> >Then why push for $JAVA_HOME, which suffers from the same problem?
>
> Because I think there are a lot of programs, which rely on the
> 'java.home' property to be set. Here is for example the result on
> going thru the ant tasks. ant is IMO one of the important packages,
> which should be made working out of the box.
Okay, so the reason for adding $JAVA_HOME is purely for the sake of ant.
(This is not an argument for or against, I just wanted to be clear on
the reason.)
Ben.
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