Bug#396170: tomcat5.5 depends on ecj-bootstrap

Marcus Better marcus at better.se
Mon Oct 30 15:01:11 CET 2006


Because jasper-compiler-jdt.jar is the Eclipse compiler. We shouldn't 
duplicate code.

I agree that it shouldn't be a hard dependency though. There should probably 
be an alternative dependency on an appropriate virtual package.

Moreover ecj-bootstrap should really be used as a bootstrap compiler only. 
From the package description:
"This bootstrap version should be used for uploading initial versions of 
packages which are a dependency of Eclipse and build with ECJ."

Either the decsription should be fixed or the package renamed, or replaced 
with something more suitable.





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