Re: [PATCH]: Add Ant.

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> this patch adds ant-minimal, a minimal configuration of Apache Ant.  Ant
> can be configured with lots of optional libraries, but since most of
> these libraries are built with Ant, I think it makes sense to provide a
> minimal version.

A couple more things:

* the installation script copies MS DOS batch scripts to $out/bin, which
  we could do without.

* there are many launcher scripts for Ant: bash scripts, perl scripts,
  Python scripts ... Does ant-minimal need to get perl and python as
  inputs or can we do without these additional dependencies?

* to use Ant without problems ANT_HOME and JAVA_HOME really should be
  set appropriately (ANT_HOME to $out of the ant-minimal package,
  JAVA_HOME to $out of icedtea6).  Should I suggest these two paths as
  search paths by adding something like this to ant-minimal (for
  ANT_HOME) and icedtea6 (for JAVA_HOME)?

    (native-search-paths
     (list (search-path-specification
            (variable "ANT_HOME")
            (files '(".")))))


~~ Ricardo