New jre layout broke Maven and Ant

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Jonathan,

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

> Your questions are about N years out of date, where N is somewhere 
> between 5 and 15 :-(
> 
> Originally, the only clients of tools.jar were JDK tools like javac, 
> javah, etc, and they had launcher support so there was no issue. It's 
> only with the advent of additional tools that want to get direct API 
> access to tools like javac that we have an issue with folk wanting 
> direct access to tools.jar.

Funny. That last sentence of yours disagrees 100% with the first sentence. 
all within 8 lines, no more!

Ciao,
Johannes

P.S.: I guess that my point is that reality disagrees not only with the 
first sentence, but also with breaking expectations. There is no good 
excuse for that, either ("fixing the design" does not do the job, it does 
not matter to anybody whose code all of a sudden breaks without their 
doing).

P.P.S.: Please note that I did not cull any context; since it was 
top-posted, there was no context to cull.