On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Rainer Noack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

>> Well, at least it compiles on Kaffe, so those classes seem to 
>> get used by others as well.
> 
> Do they work?

No idea.  The Kaffe Gump runs (currently disabled) used to build them,
but don't have any unit tests so it's hard to tell.

> However, referring sun.* classes is not a good practice in general.

Absolutely.

>> > 2) the task could check if a jar or directort is already in 
>> > a in the 
>> > classpath
>> 
>> Yep.
> 
> +1 but IMHO this behaviour should be switchable as there a
> imaginable cases
> where it is not desired.
> However, if we want to have this feature, we should use the
> getBootstrapClasspathUrls-functionality (see 1) for this
> feature too.

I see.  On Sun VMs using sun.boot.classpath is probably as reliable as
using the sun.* classes.

>> The should state that this task will cause many issues no 
>> matter how you run Ant - unless you really know what you do ;-)
> 
> "... sometimes it is helpful to know what you do ..." (A former
> collegue) ;-)

Let me stretch the "really" in my sentence above.  8-)

Stefan

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