Pack ant task: smallest set of classes needed to run

Jan 29, 2004 22:31 · 80 words · 1 minute read

Joel raised maybe slightly less hubbub than usual with his latest article Please Sir May I Have A Linker?. In there, he rants about the giant size of the .NET runtime and his desire to just include the classes he needs. Though this doesn’t eliminate the need for the Java runtime, http://sadun-util.sourceforge.net/pack.html”>The Ant Task does give you one jar file with everything you need (and no more!). (*) Assuming it works as advertised… I haven’t tried it yet.