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
