Re: xmlc's xerces and existing endorsed packages proposal....

On Monday 19 May 2003 08:16, Jacob Kjome wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Actually, there is no j2sdk1.4.x dependency.  Ant comes, by default, with
> the endorsed packages whether in the old distrubutions with crimson.jar or
> in the new ones with XercesImpl.jar and xml-apis.jar (the latter containing
> the endorsed packages).  So, whether one uses j2sdk1.4.x or any JDK
> previous to that is irrelevant.  And if one is using JDK1.3 at runtime
> under Tomcat or something, Tomcat, again, comes with XercesImpl.jar and
> xmlParserAPIs.jar (the latter equivalent to xml-apis.jar in
> Ant).  Additionally, the JAXP, DOM, and SAX libraries all come as separate
> jars distributed by Sun if the jars from the Xerces2 distribution weren't
> enough for someone (I can't fathom why???).
>
> Given the fact that this creates no extra dependency on a JDK, can I treat
> your conditional approval below as an open approval?  If so, I'll commit
> this tomorrow morning.

sounds good. Go ahead.

> Oh, and what did you think about the other proposal to get rid of the
> source for gnu-regexp and just include as a jar in CVS like we do with
> BCel?

Fine by me. It's in there as source mainly for historical reasons anyway, and 
it is definitely unchanged (with the exception of replacing build.xml so that 
it fits into the XMLC build) from the standard distribution.

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