I am someone who is mainly a user of Ant, but likes to keep up with the CVS version of ant as much as possible.
I am not so interested in having the jars for things which I need Ant to be able to do included directly in the CVS repository, but I would appreciate a clarification of the expected procedure for building Ant from the repository. I've always considered the installation instructions to be a *little* bit incomplete, but was only inspired to mention it by this conversation. If for some reason I were to do things from scratch, I would probably: * get ant from CVS * copy any Jars for optional stuff into the "lib" dir. * bootstrap ant, and install it. * copy the jars from the jakarta-ant CVS lib dir into the installation lib dir. I don't like having to bother with a classpath environmental variable, and like taking advantage of the automatic usage of whatever is contained by the lib dir. My problem is that if I want to now create a new ant installation to test out new stuff in a new directory, I have to copy the jars over to this new directory as well. I think it would be nice if Ant did that for me, but it only copies it's own Jar over to the lib directory. My question is: * What do other people do? Can someone suggest a better way for me to accomplish what I'm trying to do? Am I not doing things in a "reasonable" manner? * Why doesn't ant copy all jars from the lib dir over? Julian. ps. I think we use "talking in circles" in English too.
