From 99c578262a7e6a5014b639a93acbbd8d89c5f589 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Atherton Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 18:48:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify some instructions, remove netrexx and jai as manual download examples git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@951749 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- docs/manual/install.html | 21 +++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/manual/install.html b/docs/manual/install.html index c20ec5c8f..33dd1a223 100644 --- a/docs/manual/install.html +++ b/docs/manual/install.html @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@

Getting Ant

The Short Story

-

To get up and running with Ant quickly, follow these steps: +

To get up and running with the binary edition of Ant quickly, follow these steps:

  1. Make sure you have a Java environment installed, See System Requirements for details.
  2. @@ -36,13 +36,18 @@ Requirements for details.
  3. Set environmental variables JAVA_HOME to your Java environment, ANT_HOME to the directory you uncompressed Ant to, and add ${ANT_HOME}/bin (Unix) or %ANT_HOME%/bin (Windows) to your PATH. See Setup for details.
  4. -
  5. Optionally, run ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library dependencies -of most of the Ant optional tasks. If you don't do this, many of the optional Ant tasks will not be available. See Optional Tasks for -details and other options for the -Ddest parameter.
  6. +
  7. Optionally, from the ANT_HOME directory run ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get +the library dependencies of most of the Ant tasks that require them. If you don't do this, many of the dependent +Ant tasks will not be available. See Optional Tasks for details and other options +for the -Ddest parameter.
  8. Optionally, add any desired Antlibs. See Ant Libraries for a list.

-The short story for working with the Ant source code is: +

+Note that the links in the list above will give more details about each of the steps, +should you need them. Or you can just continue reading the rest of this document. +

+The short story for working with the Ant source code (not needed if you are working with the binary edition) is:
  1. Get the source code. See Source Edition for details.
  2. Build Ant. See Building Ant for details.
  3. @@ -459,9 +464,9 @@ libraries must be added to Ant's classpath, in any of the following ways:

    -Note that not all dependencies are gathered using fetch.xml. For example, netrexx.jar and jai.jar -require you to manually download the files. See Library Dependencies.for the -URLs where you can get these files. +Note that not all dependencies are gathered using fetch.xml. Tasks that depend on +commercial software, in particular, will require you to have the commercial software installed +in order to be used.

    The Apache Ant Project also provides additional tasks and types that are available as separately