svn commit: r791735 - /tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt

[rj...@apache.org]

Author: rjung
Date: Tue Jul  7 07:45:35 2009
New Revision: 791735

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=791735&view=rev
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Modified:
    tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt

Modified: tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt?rev=791735&r1=791734&r2=791735&view=diff
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--- tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt (original)
+++ tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt Tue Jul  7 07:45:35 2009
@@ -139,3 +139,12 @@
     We switch between JDK and JRE based on env.variables (e.g. introduced
     through setenv.[sh|bat]). Why not to add tools.jar always when JDK is
     used?
+  rjung: It looks to me like "javac" as an argument was possible before the patch
+    (even already in tc4.1) but wasn't actually changing anything except for
+    additional checks. A _RUNJAVAC was set but never used.
+    After the patch javac is meant to do something, namely adding tools.jar to
+    the classpath. The shift seems to be in
+    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/bin/setclasspath.sh?r1=791331&r2=791330&pathrev=791331
+    I don't like adding tools.jar whenever a JDK is used. The JDK contains additional
+    tools relative to the JRE, so I always prefer people to install the JDK even
+    when they only use the JDT compiler for Tomcat.



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