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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by James Duncan Davidson <ja...@eng.sun.com> on 2000/06/29 23:58:58 UTC

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/com/oreilly/servlet MailMessage.java

on 6/24/00 11:09 AM, Jason Hunter at jhunter@collab.net wrote:

> Of course Ant uses SAX, JAXP, and other libraries that aren't in
> org.apache.* (some aren't even open source) but that's acceptable
> because they're included as compiled JAR files.  That means an
> acceptable approach when one project doesn't want to be "absorbed" into
> another is to bundle snapshots of that project into a JAR.  Maybe that's
> the right approach for me to take; I just thought people might
> appreciate having the code local to peruse, and even modify if they
> wanted.

Maybe that is the best approach to take, along with a txt file that gives
the location of the source code and clarifies the distribution rights. At
least it follows covention.

.duncan