On 12/30/14, 1:06 AM, "Left Right" <olegsivo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Re' patches: many of the jars loaded by the build script may already >exist on the user's system. At least Guava, JFlex, ANTLR, Java CUP, >JBurg and LZMA are all installable on Linux in a more conventional way >(i.e. through the package manager). Wouldn't it be better to first >test for installed jars and only then load them? (I would have >preferred that this was the default which can be overridden). >I also think that this is possible to achieve on Cygwin (i.e. have >Cygwin provide the global locations of the above jars). I don't know >what is the policy wrt common jar location on Mac or Windows. Interesting idea. I don’t know enough about Java and Linux to know how our jars would find those jars and make sure they are the right version. Also any tweaking of configs and class paths needs to be done via Ant. Is that easy to do? -Alex
