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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 02:14:02 -0000
From:      "Richard Stockley" <rws@procopia.demon.co.uk>
To:        "Palle Girgensohn" <girgen@partitur.se>
Cc:        <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>, "Okazaki Tetsurou" <okazaki@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ports/24291: New port: ant build tool for Java
Message-ID:  <004101c0b275$c3d57d40$0300000a@plethora>
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Cool,
glad to be of some help.

> This sounds fine. I'll check it right away. If I understand
> correctly, the crimson.zip file includes jaxp.jar and
> crimson.jar. Are they the same files, or another
> implementation?
>
> I'll modify my port and make and can depend on it and xalan
> (that Ernst de Haan just send-pr:ed), and we get a set of
> distributable packages. Sounds fine.
>
> I diffed the javdocs, and they are practically identical, just
> a few line breaks... Then MANIFEST files are identical, so I
> gather it is the same implementation, right?
>
> Cheers,
> Palle

As far as i know they are the same implementation... from xml.apache.org
"...The Crimson codebase is based on the Sun Project X parser. It is also
the parser currently shipping in Sun products...."

They both work with ant1.3 in my experience.

> I'm preparing the new (package distributable) port now. Should
> it be called jaxp or crimson, btw? I guess I'll choose
> crimson...
>

crimson sounds fine :-)

regards
Richard.

> Richard Stockley wrote:
> >
> > Don't know if this helps you, but I mentioned this yesterday. You can
get
> > the jaxp1.1 stuff from http://xml.apache.org/dist/crimson
> >
> > this is identical to the the Sun jaxp1.1 release except for xalan.jar
which
> > cannot be redistributed (as far as I can gather anyway...) but you can
get a
> > version of this from Xalan 2 - which was comitted recently anyway.
> >
> > It should be easy to modify your jaxp port to use this and I think this
> > would be fully distributable.
> >
> > > I ported jaxp, it is in PR 25956
> > > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25956>;
> > >
> > > I'm not sure whether it is smart to depend on it for ant
> > > build/install/package, but at least we can then distribute the
> > > ant package, although it lacks Sun's stuff and depends on a
> > > port... Hmmm... We can't make an all package installation
> > > anyhow if I've read their license correctly. Maybe I haven't?
> > > Could someone else double check this; can we redistribute Sun's
> > > jarballs in any form, if not on CD (probably not) then on the
> > > net as part of a FreeBSD package?
> > >
> > > /Palle
--
Richard Stockley: Internet Developer - rws@procopia.com
Procopia Ltd -  UK



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