Jython

 I was looking at the todo list for 2.2a1 and noticed
that building on linux was one of the items.
 
 I downloaded a copy of the source from CVS got ant
and was able to build under linux.

 I only needed to change lines 42,43 of build.xml
which define the ant
properites "python.lib" and "python.exe". 

 The buildfile expects the python libraries under
${python.home}/Lib and the python execuitable under
$(python.home} 

 The python RPM for Redhat 9 places the python
libraries under
/usr/lib/python2.2/ and the python execuiable under
/usr/bin/python with /usr/bin/python2 a symbolic link
to /usr/bin/python.

 I don't know enough about ant to fix this correctly,
I just hacked in the correct paths. 

 This was under redhat 9 with the python-2.2.3-7 RPM
from RedHat using JDK-1.4.2

 Also with regards to the TODO item about the 
installer being broken, while looking for ant I
stumbled across the Jpackage project. They seem to
provide RPM packages for a number of different 
Java based tools. ( http://jpackage.org/ )

 They even have a package for Jython-2.1:
     http://jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=149

 They may be willing to package up a 2.2 release.

 Hope this is somewhat helpfull.

 
            _Travis_Caldwell_

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